Cockle Bay Wharf

This guide to Cockle Bay Wharf in Sydney starts with the Gadigal people, who gathered oysters and cockles along this shoreline for thousands of years and left the shells in mounds called middens. It follows what happened to those middens after the First Fleet arrived in 1788, when convicts and lime-burners found a use for them, and traces the harbor's renaming and its transformation from rail yard to bicentennial waterfront. Look down at the boardwalk as you listen.