Got its name on Friday 15 February 1788 when Governor Phillip, Captain Hunter and others in three boats stopped ‘at a neck of land’ for breakfast. They were joined by an Aborigine, who put down his spear to look at the boats. Bradley said he ‘examined every thing very attentively and went into all our boats from one to the other’. Phillip have him an iron hatchet and looking glass (mirror). ‘When he looked into it,’ wrote Bradley, ‘he looked immediately behind the Glass to see if any person was there and pointed to the Glass and the shadows which he saw in the water signifying they were similar.’ The original name of Looking Glass Point is not known. (Source: Wallumedegal, An Aboriginal History of Ryde, Keith Vincent Smith, 2005)
It’s a point, neither here nor there. Good views up and down the river, with another sailing club that looked like a popular spot for a local afternoon bevvy.
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