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      <image:caption>Just an hour from Sydney’s CBD and connected by both train and freeway, the historic Hawkesbury River mailboat at Brooklyn is the perfect day trip for locals and visitors</image:caption>
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      <image:title>The Riverboat Postman - OFFICIAL SITE - Take a Tour…</image:title>
      <image:caption>…and then buy the book…and some gift vouchers…</image:caption>
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      <image:title>The Riverboat Postman - OFFICIAL SITE - Sunday on the Hawkesbury</image:title>
      <image:caption>Looking for a cruise on the weekend? Join us for morning tea, lunch, and some spectacular scenery…</image:caption>
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      <image:title>Sunday on the Hawkesbury</image:title>
      <image:caption>So what do we do on a Sunday when there's no mail? We cruise in the opposite direction towards the National Parks and Broken Bay! Starting at 11am (Sundays deserve a sleep-in), join us for a 3 hour cruise of the spectacular Hawkesbury River. Bring along your family and friends and enjoy morning tea and our delicious Ploughman’s-style lunch on board as you sit back and see the grand old Hawkesbury at its lazy best. OR….try our new Sunday Express! Departing at 11.15 and returning at 12.30, this cruise includes pastries and profiteroles with your tea or coffee, and gets you back to Brooklyn in time for a local lunch. The latest addition to our fleet. M.V. Deliverance is a speedy and stable catamaran, and this cruise will show you many of the scenic highlights of the longer lunch cruise.</image:caption>
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      <image:title>Sunday on the Hawkesbury - Where do we go?</image:title>
      <image:caption>We follow part of the itinerary of our popular 'Seven Islands of the Hawkesbury' cruise - learn some of the history and heritage of the area and its beautiful islands: Lion, Dangar, Spectacle and Long Islands, as well as the isolated and secretive Cowan Creek. This cruise is designed to showcase the opposite end of the river to The Riverboat Postman, so the two cruises can be taken without much overlap. The views to the ocean behind Lion Island make for some spectacular photos, as will the close-up (tide dependent) view of some ancient Aboriginal rock carvings at Eagle Rock near Broken Bay.</image:caption>
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      <image:caption>Dropping the mail at Milsons Passage</image:caption>
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      <image:caption>The Hawkesbury River train bridge</image:caption>
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      <image:caption>It's always a bonus to get a spectacular sunny day</image:caption>
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      <image:caption>That's real coffee...</image:caption>
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      <image:caption>Doogle waiting for his biscuit...</image:caption>
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      <image:caption>Beautiful Polaroid Rock</image:caption>
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      <image:caption>The beautiful, unspoilt Hawkesbury</image:caption>
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      <image:caption>The Postie passing the Dangar Island Ferry</image:caption>
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      <image:title>The Riverboat Postman - Delivering for Australia Post</image:title>
      <image:caption>Come cruising with us on the Hawkesbury Mail Boat, the famous Riverboat Postman, and enjoy the magnificent scenery of the lower Hawkesbury River as we deliver the mail and other essentials (the odd bottle of whiskey or rum...) to the river-access-only settlements upriver from Brooklyn. We leave the wharf at 10am each weekday except public holidays, regardless of the weather - after all, ‘the mail must get through’! The first Riverboat Postman started the run in 1910, and the tradition continues today with Hawkesbury Cruises, the current custodian of this fabulous day trip. Our skippers are locals who have lived in the area their whole lives - be entertained by the stories of the river whilst cruising in comfort up this spectacular waterway. Be assured that at least 95% of what they say is true...  Our coffee is real, our tea is hot, and our famous ANZAC biscuits are home-made daily to Grandma's recipe. We’ll give you a pretty fine lunch too!</image:caption>
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      <image:caption>Local photographer Matt Barros takes the most extraordinary photos - this is one of them</image:caption>
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