Ferndale Park
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Ferndale Park New South Wales |
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"Old Man's Cave" and Swaines Creek
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 Ferndale Park
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| Coordinates | 33°47′58.6″S 151°10′09.89″E / 33.799611°S 151.1694139°ECoordinates: 33°47′58.6″S 151°10′09.89″E / 33.799611°S 151.1694139°E |
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Ferndale Park is located in suburban Chatswood West, 8 km (5 mi) from the centre of Sydney, Australia. It is an important urban forest reserve, preserving Blackbutt forest and the mossy gully rainforest. Most of this original forest was cleared for agriculture and housing in the 19th and 20th century.
Average annual rainfall is 1,200 mm (47 in) at the nearby Chatswood Bowling Club. Soils are moderately fertile, based on Hawkesbury sandstone and Ashfield Shale. Most of the reserve is considered part of the Sydney Sandstone Gully Forest.
The local indigenous Australian people, the Cammeraygal occupied this area for at least 5,800 years. They were known to shelter in "Old Man's Cave" in heatwaves or heavy rain.
Ferndale Park has a series of walking tracks. Office workers from Chatswood may be seen jogging through the reserve at lunchtime.
Noteworthy indigenous flora includes the blackbutt,tree heath, celery wood, coachwood, native crabapple and hard corkwood. An impressive number of fern species grow here, including jungle brake, fishbone water fern, filmy fern, Japanese lady fern, delicate rock fern and the necklace fern. In early winter, waxcap mushroom species in the Hygrophoraceae may be seen.
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