The book launch of The Deua River Track, compiled by Peter C Smith for Access for All, was well supported at the Braidwood Services Club last Saturday. Local authors, Netta Ellis, Roz Maddrel and Mary Anne Bunn were among those present as well descendants of some of the pioneering families featured in the book.

The photo shows descendants (L to R), Terry Hart, Catherine Lawler (nee Carden), and Myrtle Collett (nee Davis) with Peter Smith.

 

Myrtle Collett was described as 'living legend'. She is last of the Deua River pioneers having been born at Woolla in 1930, in the days when the only access was by horse and bridle track.

Compiled by Peter Smith, for Access for All, this beautifully illustrated book is the first of a series Access for All is hoping to collate which will identify the Pack Tracks and Bridle Tracks of South Eastern New South Wales