114 Australian Geographic
From its beginnings as an Aboriginal songline to its
heyday as a busy stock route, the Wool Road offers a
fascinating journey between Canberra and the coast with
plenty of reasons to tarry along its twists and turns.
Story by Tim the Yowie Man Photography by Thomas WieleckiThere’s now very little left at the
coastal terminus of the Wool Road,
at Vincentia (formerly South Huskisson),
in Jervis Bay. But it used to be a busy cargo
wharf, as this painting of the site in
January 1843 shows.Wool Road
The old