Cottage Point is on a headland where Cowan Creek and Coal and Candle Creek meet, part of the Hawkesbury Broken Bay River system . It is the only inhabited place in Ku-ring-gai-Chase National Park and the end point of Cottage Point Road . In the village there is a restaurant with two apartments for overnight stays, which guests like to fly to in a seaplane, as well as boat rentals and berths for ships.
history
Cottage Point had numerous names that date back to early European settlement: Cowan Creek Terrey , Anderson , Dixon , Overall , Windy bank , McCreadie, and Notting . In the period from 1880 to 1970, the name Notting was used, which goes back to Henry Eustace Notting, who was the first settler in the area.
In 1885, Joshua Terrey obtained 140 acres of land from the government and pitched a tent there and spent the holidays with his family. The Terreys were allowed to build a permanent building in 1906, when the area was already part of the Ku-ring-gai-Chase National Park. The first house was named Riverview . Further houses were built in the following period and the material was transported there by ship. In 1934 a provisional access road to Cottage Point was built and it was not until 1940 that the road could be made with bulldozers , because during the Second World War the ships were confiscated by the army for fear of invasion. In 1970 the Nottings sold their property at Cottage Point to a yacht club.
