Editing Ku-ring-gai Chase National Park (section)

==Locations, access and facilities==
[[File:Ku-ring-gai Chase National Park map.png|thumb|The Ku-ring-gai Chase National park]]
[[File:SphinxMemorial2.JPG|thumb|right|Sphinx Memorial]]
Many of the park's attractions are accessible only by walking track. Many kilometres of the park front the shores of [[Broken Bay]], [[Pittwater]] and [[Cowan Creek]], making it a good place to explore by boat.<ref name="discover"/> Railway stations are at [[Mount Colah railway station|Mount Colah]], [[Mount Kuring-gai railway station|Mount Kuring-gai]], [[Berowra railway station|Berowra]] and [[Cowan railway station|Cowan]].<ref name="discover"/> All roads in the area are sealed and all have collection gates where a daily fee is payable.

*[[Bobbin Head]] is located on Cowan Creek and facilities include a marina, picnic areas, a small store, and a lunch-time restaurant in what used to be the Bobbin Head Inn, which also contains an information centre. The area contains many fire trails and a walk through mangroves. Aboriginal engravings can be seen in the area.
*Appletree Bay is a picnic area with a boat ramp and jetty, toilets, picnic tables and barbecues.
*The Basin is a lagoon with a beach on the west side of Pittwater. It has picnic areas and is the only location in the national park where camping is permitted.<ref name="discover"/> Access is either by West Head Road via The Basin Track or on a ferry from Palm Beach Wharf.
* West Head is a headland at the north eastern tip of the National Park. A lookout, with views of [[Barranjoey, New South Wales|Barrenjoey]], [[Palm Beach, New South Wales|Palm Beach]] and Broken Bay, has been built on West Head.<ref name="gregorys">Gregory's Street Directory, 59th Edition 1995, Map 109</ref> The [[Flint & Steel Guesthouse]] was one of the first buildings on West Head.  Gun emplacements were built for WW2 defences, and a bushtrack still leads down to their remnants. 
*[[Barrenjoey, New South Wales|Barrenjoey headland]] is at the northern end of Palm Beach and is not joined to the rest of the Park by land but separated by 1 kilometre of water, the Pittwater. It is the site the historic [[Barrenjoey Head Lighthouse]], constructed in 1880.
*The Sphinx Memorial is a sandstone monument commemorating the fallen [[First Australian Imperial Force|Australian Imperial Force]] comrades of [[William Thomas Shirley|William Shirley]] during [[World War I]] and was created by the returned soldier in the 1920s.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.warmemorialsnsw.asn.au/details.cfm?MemNo=327|title=Sphinx Memorial – Ku-ring-gai Chase National Park|year=2010|publisher=[[Government of New South Wales]]|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090914122222/http://www.warmemorialsnsw.asn.au/Details.cfm?MemNo=327|archive-date=14 September 2009|url-status=dead|quote=Pte. William Shirley was a patient of the Lady Davidson Convalescent Hospital...}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.nationalparks.nsw.gov.au/things-to-do/historic-buildings-places/sphinx-memorial|title=Sphinx Memorial|website=[[NSW National Parks & Wildlife Service]]|language=en|access-date=2019-05-09}}</ref> The Sphinx took about one and a half years to complete.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.warmemorialsregister.nsw.gov.au/content/sphinx-memorial-ku-ring-gai-chase-national-park|title=Sphinx Memorial – Ku-ring-gai Chase National Park|last=webadmin|date=2012-04-11|website=warmemorialsregister.nsw.gov.au|language=en|access-date=2019-05-10}}</ref>
*Cottage Point is Sydney's smallest locality and is listed as a heritage conservation area.<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://www.visitsydneyaustralia.com.au/cottage-pt.html|title=Cottage Point|website=visitsydneyaustralia.com.au|access-date=2020-02-19}}</ref> Cottage Point Kiosk and Boat Hire, built around 1918, is situated at Cottage Point at the entrance to Coal and Candle Creek.<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://www.cottagepointkiosk.com.au/|title=Cottage Point Kiosk|website=cottagepointkiosk.com.au|access-date=2019-05-10}}</ref>
* Jerusalem Bay is accessible by a track which is part of the [[Great North Walk]] from Cowan railway station next to the Pacific Highway.<ref>{{cite web
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}}</ref> The track passes through a creek gorge lined with [[temperate rainforest]] and large turpentines before opening to the bay. At the bay is an old abandoned habitation site. It opens out to Cowan Water and Broken Bay making it popular with boating and fishing enthusiasts. After the bay the track proceeds up a steep climb past Campbell's Crater and along the ridge to Brooklyn. Campbell's Crater is a volcanic diatreme containing [[subtropical rainforest]] species such as [[Toona ciliata|Red Cedars]] and Cabbage Palms with a floor of ferns.<ref>{{cite web|title=Cowan, Jerusalem Bay, Campbells Crater, Brooklyn|url=http://www.wildwalks.com/bushwalking/general/general_items_render.html?action=view_item&item_id=1217|publisher=Wildwalks.com|url-status=dead|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20100329001821/http://www.wildwalks.com/bushwalking/general/general_items_render.html?action=view_item|archive-date=29 March 2010}}</ref>