Spit West Reserve

A number of informative signs and viewing platforms are available to enjoy along the path in Spit West Reserve, placed by Council during developments and upgrades to the walking track, bike track, recreational areas and tidal sea wall, which commenced in May 2009 (page 15 of Spit Reserves Plan of Management).[1] The beauty of the Spit’s natural environment has long been important for the local community. A newspaper article in The Sun in 1913 protested government and council intentions to place water-tanks on the reserve.

It wrote ‘up to 18 months ago we had a very nice reserve on the end of the Spit… I believe it is the intention of the department, to now place, unsightly, water tanks on the reserve, and I think some public protest should be made [and to] have this pretty spot cleaned up.’[2]

[1] Mosman Municipal Council, Parkland Environmental Planners, and Philips Marler, The Spit Reserves Plan of Management: Public Exhibition Draft, p. 15.

[2] “The Spit Reserve,” The Sun, October 4, 1913, p. 12, <http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article229355684>, accessed 11 October 2021