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General information

• Minimum numbers, or covering the cost for minimum numbers, apply for all tours.
• Read the information for your preferred tour carefully to ensure conditions are suitable for your group.
• Bookings must be made at least seven (7) days in advance.
• All bookings are subject to guide availability.

COVID-19 Safe check-in

As a registered COVID Safe business, we require ticketholders to use the Service NSW app to scan a QR code and ensure a COVID Safe check-in at our heritage sites on Sydney Harbour. Ahead of your tour, please ensure you have downloaded the app to your mobile device

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COVID – conditions of participation

To comply with the NSW Government’s COVID-19 public health orders, we are currently only accepting groups of up to eight people for our Defence of Sydney and Tunnels and Gunners Tours, as both involve entering confined spaces.

Further, members of each group must ensure they: 

• bring and wear a face mask for the duration of the tour [Note: Defence of Sydney and Tunnels and Gunners Tours only[;
• maintain a physical distance of 1.5 metres from others;
• have not travelled overseas within the last 14 days;
• have not had contact with a confirmed COVID-19 case within the last 14 days; and
• are not unwell and have not had any COVID-19 symptoms in the last 14 days.

Cost: $11 per adult, $8 per child, $8 per concession, $8 per senior | Duration: 90 mins 

During our Tunnels and Gunners Tour, an experienced volunteer guide will lead you through a set of demilitarised fortifications set within stunning coastal bushland at Georges Heights, Mosman, including tunnels off limits to the general public. The tour concludes at the Headland Park Artist Precinct, which is home to a thriving community of painters, potters, sculptors, and photographers.

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Cost: $11 per adult, $8 per child, $8 per concession, $8 per senior | Duration: 90 mins 

The Defence of Sydney Tour is an opportunity to walk in the footsteps of the men and women who served at North Fort, a former army base that once protected Sydney Harbour. Accompanied by a knowledgeable guide, you will visit heritage gun emplacements and descend into the 200-metre-long military tunnel complex. Finally, our guide will demystify an underground bunker once shrouded in secrecy: The Plotting Room.

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Cost: $11 per adult, $8 per child, $8 per concession, $8 per senior | Duration: 60 mins

Established in 1881 for victims of a smallpox epidemic, the Third Quarantine Cemetery at North Head Sanctuary, Manly, is included on Australia’s National Heritage List as a significant example of the nation’s evolving quarantine practices. During this 60-minute tour, a knowledgeable guide will share stories of those who succumbed to the ravages of small pox, the plague and other epidemics. Attendees will also experience the natural beauty of this final resting place, including unspoiled views of Sydney Harbour.

• What to bring: Suitable walking shoes, a sunhat and wet weather gear (if needed).
• Weather: This tour will proceed regardless of weather conditions except in the event of extreme weather. If the Rural Fire Service declares an extreme or catastrophic fire danger rating for the Greater Sydney Region (area 4), tours will be cancelled.
• Site conditions: A moderate level of fitness and mobility is required as the tour includes stairs, bush tracks and uneven ground. It is not suitable for people with wheelchairs, mobility scooters, strollers or pram.
• Tour content: Although this is an all-ages tour, people under 18 must be accompanied by an adult. Further, Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Peoples are advised that the tour contains stories (and may contain images and/or visuals) of deceased people.

Cost: $26 per adult, $16 per child, $16 per concession, $16 per senior | Duration: 60 mins

Running select Saturdays, the Sub Base Platypus Walking Tour is a 60-minute guided journey through the different layers of history at the site. Ticket holders will have an opportunity to explore buildings from different eras and learn about the First Nations, industrial and military heritage of this emerging community hub. Go behind the scenes of a historic gasworks, torpedo factory and submarine base that was off-limits to the public for 150 years.

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