About Yaralla - a place called home.

Yaralla Bay is a mangrove-lined inlet of Sydney’s Parramatta River, that lies near the end of our street. Named after the historic Yaralla House, which was built on its eastern headland in the 1860’s, “Yaralla” is said to be an aboriginal word meaning ‘camp’ or ‘home’. Yaralla Estate was partly subdivided in the early 20th century for housing and a small veterans’ hospital, now the large Concord Repatriation General Hospital. Fortunately its remaining grounds were kept as fields, gardens and patches of relict bushland. These, along with the mangroves, are a wonderful green oasis in Sydney’s suburban sprawl, providing precious habitat for birds and animals, and an open space for people to enjoy.