Blues Point Reserve
Harbourside headland park with bridge and skyline views, named for a colorful convict ferryman.
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This guide to Blues Point Reserve in Sydney follows Billy Blue, a convict transported from Kent for stealing a bag of sugar, who reached Sydney in December 1801 with barely two years left to serve. You'll hear how he built a life on this headland afterward, fishing for oysters, rowing passengers, and by 1807 holding the colony's only harbour ferry licence, and how Governor Macquarie came to like him enormously. It traces his marriage to fellow convict Elizabeth, their six children, and the eighty acres he named Northampton. Listen from the point where he used to stand, watching for sails.
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