Ash Island is in the Hunter Wetlands National Park (Kooragang Wetlands), which is between the Newcastle CBD and the Hexham Bridge. With just parking and toilets, it is convenient and very lovely.
Read A History of Ash Island here. Read about Sisters Harriot and Helena Scott here. "[They] were probably the premier natural history illustrators working in New South Wales in the last half of the 19th century. They ... spent most of their adolescence and early adulthood on Ash Island in the Hunter Valley. They started and developed a remarkable project to illustrate all known Australian butterflies and moths. ... There's a group working on Ash Island, which has ... been using the observational data that the sisters collected to actually rehabilitate that landscape back to something like it was in the 1860s, so using the sisters' specimen lists and the observations they made of plants on the island in order to find and replant that landscape." (YouTube) See fifth photo.
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