February Report
Venue-Artarmon to Cremorne Junction via Flat Rock Gully and Tunks Park.
Participants - Ron, Chris, Helen, Richard, Peter, Yvonne, Natalie and Colin
Finally, a fine day for our walk. It was great to see everyone again.
The Start
We met at Artarmon station and found a wonderful coffee shop nearby called Hampden Gourmet- great coffee, cakes, sausage rolls and service.
Points of Interest
*A nice cool start to the walk, under the cover of trees, through Artamon Reserve, around the oval and under the Gore Hill Freeway.
*The old Council Incinerator designed by Walter Burley Griffin and built in 1934. It is now a gallery, coffee shop etc.
*Henry Lawson’s Cave, which is more of a rock overhang. Legend tells us that he went there to dry out after he had become intoxicated! Or to quote from other website notes it is where he “spent many a time retiring from society”
*Walked along the bush track along Flat Rock Creek and encountering some very interesting dogs!
*Heard Kookaburras, whip birds and saw a few ducks.
*Admired the Aboriginal mural under the road tunnel.
*Walked under the historic bridge of many names! It has been known as Cammeray Bridge, Long Gully Bridge, North Sydney Suspension Bridge or more commonly The Suspension Bridge. It is easily recognizable from the lovely stone castle like structures at each end of the bridge.
*Walked along the Tunks Park recreation grounds and looked at the boats and houses of Middle Harbour. (Tunks Park was names after William Tunks the first Mayor of St Leonards between 1867 ad 1883-found this out from a website!)
*Then up, up and up to Cremorne Junction via roads, steps, more steps, more roads until we reached Military Road. A sigh of relief!
*Great lunch spot at a local café that served excellent food, ginger beer and had a lovely shady table outside where we could relax and catch up with more talking.
The finish
Caught a limited stops bus back to the city where we each alighted at different places to catch our buses or trains back home.
Distance walked - I’m going with Richard’s estimate of 9km from his Fitbit! However Peters GPS tracker was I think 7 or 8km.
Venue-Artarmon to Cremorne Junction via Flat Rock Gully and Tunks Park.
Participants - Ron, Chris, Helen, Richard, Peter, Yvonne, Natalie and Colin
Finally, a fine day for our walk. It was great to see everyone again.
The Start
We met at Artarmon station and found a wonderful coffee shop nearby called Hampden Gourmet- great coffee, cakes, sausage rolls and service.
Points of Interest
*A nice cool start to the walk, under the cover of trees, through Artamon Reserve, around the oval and under the Gore Hill Freeway.
*The old Council Incinerator designed by Walter Burley Griffin and built in 1934. It is now a gallery, coffee shop etc.
*Henry Lawson’s Cave, which is more of a rock overhang. Legend tells us that he went there to dry out after he had become intoxicated! Or to quote from other website notes it is where he “spent many a time retiring from society”
*Walked along the bush track along Flat Rock Creek and encountering some very interesting dogs!
*Heard Kookaburras, whip birds and saw a few ducks.
*Admired the Aboriginal mural under the road tunnel.
*Walked under the historic bridge of many names! It has been known as Cammeray Bridge, Long Gully Bridge, North Sydney Suspension Bridge or more commonly The Suspension Bridge. It is easily recognizable from the lovely stone castle like structures at each end of the bridge.
*Walked along the Tunks Park recreation grounds and looked at the boats and houses of Middle Harbour. (Tunks Park was names after William Tunks the first Mayor of St Leonards between 1867 ad 1883-found this out from a website!)
*Then up, up and up to Cremorne Junction via roads, steps, more steps, more roads until we reached Military Road. A sigh of relief!
*Great lunch spot at a local café that served excellent food, ginger beer and had a lovely shady table outside where we could relax and catch up with more talking.
The finish
Caught a limited stops bus back to the city where we each alighted at different places to catch our buses or trains back home.
Distance walked - I’m going with Richard’s estimate of 9km from his Fitbit! However Peters GPS tracker was I think 7 or 8km.