The Rock's Return

The road to the Mountain, via Kariong, was blocked last week when a boulder fell on the road near Kendall’s Rock. The poet Henry Kendall had a connection with the mountain, being one of the first to carry mail up the Penang from Gosford.
His route of course did not follow the road beside which the monument was erected in 1931 (and where the boulder fell), but would have been up the old Gosford Road. One of his destinations would have been with a friend Henry Pile, who lived west of Piles Creek where the Industrial Estate is now.
The rock and pool referred to in the verse on the monument was once a place to visit, but is now shamefully inaccessible, due to neglect, and is surrounded by a chain-link fence to prevent further vandalism.

From: Names Upon a Stone
Henry Kendall

Narrara of the waterfalls,
The darling of the hills,
Whose home is under mountain walls
By many-luted rills!
Her bright green nooks and channels cool
I never more may see;
But, ah! the Past was beautiful --
The sights that used to be.

From C. C. Fox photographs of fashion and leisure activities, Gosford Region, NSW, 1906-1911

Not by Henry Kendall:

There is a rock-pool in a glen
Beyond the Crofton Weed;
Lantana shuts it in through men’s
Devouring need and greed;
Though once we knew its dwelling-place --
The lovely and the lone --
Now, only in a dream, can trace
Those names upon the stone.

More images.