Pooh Bear Corner

"Pooh Bear's Corner"

Where exactly is this corner.
Cheers
Melch39

The Kings Highway from Canberra to Braidwood is sometimes called the Avenue of the Bears by us Canberrites. Apparently many years ago, there was an overhanging branch across the Highway, and there were complaints to the Roads Authority about the danger if it fell. So, instead of cutting off the branch, the road gang felled the whole tree, which upset the greenies because of the loss of native habitat. In protest, people started putting stuffed toys in the trees lining the road, and the tradition has continued to this day. If you read Winnie the Pooh by A.A.Milne as a child, you'll understand why the adit (mine entrance) became known as Pooh's Hole, and the corner in the road, Pooh's Corner. Presumably the same people who decorate the Avenue of the Bears also decorate Pooh's Corner??

Sorry to dispell the myth. It was always Pooh's Corner, ala the cartoon. The "cave" is a small hole in the rock face on the Clyde Mountain, certainly not even vaguely like a cave. The myth has obviously taken on a life of it's own now if the explosives story has any merit (which I doubt). As someone said a stuffed bear first appeared there in the 70's, later someone added a sign, then came the current "desecration" by hangers on.

I've not heard of the "avenue of bears". Presumably that's the few kms of highway just west of Bungendore where someone put a few old stuffed toys in trees (copying what others had done elsewhere in various forms - shoes, bottles, stuffed toys). Probably for a bit of fun - that section of road was well known for the traffic snarl during holidays. If so there was no controversy about tree lopping or greenies. It first occurred a long time ago and apparently intermittently since if this is anything to go by: http://www.thinktag.com/country/archive/country_diary089.htm

I've travelled this road all my life & it started in the late 60's early or 70s & I doubt if any body knows how it really started, but the left teddy is the most likely as it was in a section where you could pull up, as a kid we would always check to see if poo bear was home & over the years I've stopped & added a Xmas tree with lights & a few years ago painted a 200ltr drum yellow & got my sign writer to paint it as a giant capilano honey jar. It only lasted 1night & weighed over 150kgs
The teddys in the trees started decades later & I,ve never herd of the explosives one till now & the cave is probably only 400mm deep & is no cave (even ted gets wet when it rains) in one of the above photos the reflective eyes are on the back wall so this shows it's recess not a cave
I hope it Carrys on for decades as I still enjoy checking it out & hope the kids get a kick out of it as we did