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Crosslands Park (33° 37′ 51″S, 151° 6′ 32″E) to the Jungo
Rest Area (33° 43′ 10″S, 151° 3′ 28″E) from MODERATE to HARD (with two vertical sections up metal ladder steps) (Nl&amp;gt;Sy) 16.0 km on a lovely part of the Great North Walk. 

South from the picnic park in Crosslands Reserve
following Berowra Creek to Galston Gorge through Berowra Valley Recreational
Park. Up the ridge opposite Hornsby Heights (see Chapter 17 of GNW Companion); back down to the creek at
Fishponds (&amp;amp; trig point); passing the turning to Bluegum Walk in the
Elouera Bushland Reserve; skirting Westleigh as far as the Jungo Rest Area in
Elouera Park. Read more in Great North Walk Companion




 <br><img src="http://images.everytrail.com/pics/thumbnail/1141279-lizards.JPG"/> <img src="http://images.everytrail.com/pics/thumbnail/1141284-washpool.JPG"/> <img src="http://images.everytrail.com/pics/thumbnail/1141285-water_sculpts_rock.JPG"/> <img src="http://images.everytrail.com/pics/thumbnail/1141278-Hawkesbury_sandstone.JPG"/> ]]></description><guid>http://www.everytrail.com/view_trip.php?trip_id=573267</guid><link>http://www.everytrail.com/view_trip.php?trip_id=573267</link><pubDate>Wed, 14 Apr 2010 02:52:53 -0500</pubDate></item><item><title><![CDATA[Wakefield to Watagan Forest: Hard Climb on Great North Walk]]></title><description><![CDATA[

From 2 km west
of the Watagan Forest campsite walking the rugged slopes of the Watagan
Mountains with views of the Hunter Valley. Down steep steps to Watagan Forest
Motel at Heaton Gap and then over the Sugarloaf Range ridge to Archery Road,
Wakefield.  the climb from the motel to the top is TOUGH!  Another way is by Hot-Air
Ballooning: offers a
different airborne view of the Watagan Mountains: Balloon Aloft (+61 2
4991 1955) or Hunter Valley Hot-Air Ballooning (+61 2 4991 3566). Both are
about 20 km from the Great North Walk and roughly 6 km due north of
Cessnock.











 <br><img src="http://images.everytrail.com/pics/thumbnail/1141263-from_above_Freemans_Waterhole.JPG"/> <img src="http://images.everytrail.com/pics/thumbnail/1141262-deep_gully.JPG"/> <img src="http://images.everytrail.com/pics/thumbnail/1141264-rock_shelter.JPG"/> <img src="http://images.everytrail.com/pics/thumbnail/1141265-signs_to_follow.JPG"/> ]]></description><guid>http://www.everytrail.com/view_trip.php?trip_id=573257</guid><link>http://www.everytrail.com/view_trip.php?trip_id=573257</link><pubDate>Wed, 14 Apr 2010 02:40:57 -0500</pubDate></item><item><title><![CDATA[CedarBrush Downs to Somersby- Great North Walking]]></title><description><![CDATA[
Somersby (33° 21′ 29″S, 151° 17′ 23″E)  to intersection of Beavens Point Road
&amp;amp; Brush Creek Road (33° 9′ 52″S, 151° 16′ 29″E). MODERATE (ends EASY) (Sy&amp;gt;Nl) 32.6 km.. Read the Great North Walk Companion as you hike this trail. 

Day 1: North from the Somersby Store past the end of
Kilkenny Road over a creek and on to Ourimbah Creek Road as far as Tooheys Road.
After Stringy Bark Point campsite joining Tooheys Road South past Milligan’s
Range; forking off Tooheys Road, to Cherry Lane as far as its intersection with
Greta Road. 

Day 2: Along Greta Road to the powerlines service trail
and then down Bumble Hill to Ravensdale Road. Pass through Yarramalong and
follow Ravensdale Road; along Cedar Brush Road as far as its intersection with
Beavens Point Road.Why not buy the book or watch the movie.




 <br><img src="http://images.everytrail.com/pics/thumbnail/1141251-St_Barnabas_Church.JPG"/> <img src="http://images.everytrail.com/pics/thumbnail/1122290-Pioneer_grave.JPG"/> <img src="http://images.everytrail.com/pics/thumbnail/1141250-pioneer_graves.JPG"/> <img src="http://images.everytrail.com/pics/thumbnail/1141249-Inside_St_Barnabas.JPG"/> ]]></description><guid>http://www.everytrail.com/view_trip.php?trip_id=573244</guid><link>http://www.everytrail.com/view_trip.php?trip_id=573244</link><pubDate>Wed, 14 Apr 2010 02:18:53 -0500</pubDate></item><item><title><![CDATA[Cowan to Crosslands on the Great North Walk]]></title><description><![CDATA[

COWAN TO CROSSLANDS: 14.1 km (moderate) - near the centre of the Great North Walk and central to the mystery.

Walking
west from Cowan station down a steep trail eventually coming to the Hawkesbury
River at Berowra Waters [A link track to the GNW takes you to Berowra and access to the railway line. In Berowra, there is accommodation at Berowra Village Tavern.]  Then hiking south along Berowra Creek through the
relatively undisturbed bushland of Berowra Valley Regional Park; Crosslands
Reserve, as far as the trail turn-off to Sommerville Road.   Try  a trip on a
sea-plane, fly in from Rose Bay or Palm Beach with a spectacular 30-minute flight
over Sydney Harbour and the bushland of the national parks on the way to
Berowra Waters, which is on the Great
North Walk.


















 <br><img src="http://images.everytrail.com/pics/thumbnail/1141228-Darug_People.JPG"/> <img src="http://images.everytrail.com/pics/thumbnail/1141227-Crosslands_Park.JPG"/> <img src="http://images.everytrail.com/pics/thumbnail/1141233-Indigenous_sign.JPG"/> <img src="http://images.everytrail.com/pics/thumbnail/1141231-GrassTrees.JPG"/> ]]></description><guid>http://www.everytrail.com/view_trip.php?trip_id=573220</guid><link>http://www.everytrail.com/view_trip.php?trip_id=573220</link><pubDate>Wed, 14 Apr 2010 01:49:20 -0500</pubDate></item><item><title><![CDATA[Congewai to Millfield: on Great North Walk]]></title><description><![CDATA[

CONGEWAI ROAD
TO MILLFIELD: 10.3 km
(easy)

Starting at the Great
North Walk trackhead on Congewai Road walk north along Congewai Road beside
the Congewai Creek; past Ellalong Lagoon, through Paxton and on to Millfield.
[This is a spur and not part of the Great North Walk proper].  Read the history of the Ellalong Lagoon in the Great North Walk Companion.   Discover links from here to the Big Foot &amp;amp; the Yetis.




 <br><img src="http://images.everytrail.com/pics/thumbnail/1141138-Congewai_Trackhead.JPG"/> <img src="http://images.everytrail.com/pics/thumbnail/1141141-FlatRock.JPG"/> <img src="http://images.everytrail.com/pics/thumbnail/1141137-Big_Weeds.JPG"/> <img src="http://images.everytrail.com/pics/thumbnail/1141144-Road_to_Paxton.JPG"/> ]]></description><guid>http://www.everytrail.com/view_trip.php?trip_id=573196</guid><link>http://www.everytrail.com/view_trip.php?trip_id=573196</link><pubDate>Wed, 14 Apr 2010 01:20:54 -0500</pubDate></item><item><title><![CDATA[Somersby to Staples Lookout: on the Great North Walk]]></title><description><![CDATA[SOMERSBY TO
STAPLES LOOKOUT: 28.2 km
(moderate to hard)

South from the
Somersby Store passing the spur to Somersby Falls (about 3 km) down to Mooney
Mooney Creek; following the river under the freeway and then over Mooney Mooney
Creek north of the northern tip of Native Dog Bay. Continuing south joining the
Girrakool–Patonga Walking Track, turning off the track to Wondabyne Station
(about 4 km), descending past the Kariong Brook Falls turning to Staples
Lookout on the Woy Woy Road.  Walk past (&amp;amp; visit ) the Calga Rock Art site. Somersby
Falls: just a 3
km diversion off the Great North Walk proper takes you to this area.
Observation platforms provide excellent views of the 8 metre falls and the
rainforest. After a steep track with many steps, the Falls Walking Track
descends to Floods Creek past two stages of waterfalls and ends at the base of
the falls. There is evidence of tool grinding grooves in the
rocks.  Read the book for more history and mystery along the route.








 




 <br><img src="http://images.everytrail.com/pics/thumbnail/1141117-GNW_signpost.JPG"/> <img src="http://images.everytrail.com/pics/thumbnail/1141124-Spur_to_SomersbyFalls.JPG"/> <img src="http://images.everytrail.com/pics/thumbnail/1141118-Quarries_abound.JPG"/> <img src="http://images.everytrail.com/pics/thumbnail/1141119-Quarries_and_sand_depots.JPG"/> ]]></description><guid>http://www.everytrail.com/view_trip.php?trip_id=573187</guid><link>http://www.everytrail.com/view_trip.php?trip_id=573187</link><pubDate>Wed, 14 Apr 2010 00:59:13 -0500</pubDate></item><item><title><![CDATA[Macquarie Park to Writers Walk: FINISH your Great North Walk HERE]]></title><description><![CDATA[Walk
just a few hundred metres from Circular Quay inland to the Obelisk in Macquarie
Place.  Macquarie’s
Obelisk is located in the oldest planned town square and urban park in
Australia: the tiny Macquarie Place on Bridge Street in central Sydney. It
marks the start of the Great North Walk
and is the oldest true obelisk on this journey dating to 1818. Built of locally
quarried white sandstone, this elongated pyramid has a geographical purpose: it
is the milestone for the measurement of road lengths in New South Wales.  Follow
the metal plaques, starting from the International Passenger Terminal on West
Circular Quay around the walkway that runs between the ferry jetties and
Circular Quay railway station, and then all the way along East Circular Quay to
the side of the Sydney Opera House forecourt — on the Great North Walk. Additions include walking on to the Conservatorium or taking a sight-seeing bus (0.33 km). Watch movie here.











 <br><img src="http://images.everytrail.com/pics/thumbnail/1141105-obelisk-hyde_park.jpg"/> <img src="http://images.everytrail.com/pics/thumbnail/1141107-Plaque_Arthur_Phillip_First_Fleeet.JPG"/> <img src="http://images.everytrail.com/pics/thumbnail/1141103-FirstFleet_anchor.JPG"/> <img src="http://images.everytrail.com/pics/thumbnail/1141104-Macquarie_Obelisk.JPG"/> ]]></description><guid>http://www.everytrail.com/view_trip.php?trip_id=573176</guid><link>http://www.everytrail.com/view_trip.php?trip_id=573176</link><pubDate>Wed, 14 Apr 2010 00:45:36 -0500</pubDate></item><item><title><![CDATA[Warner's Bay to Wakefield on the Great North Walk]]></title><description><![CDATA[From Warners Bay continue around the tip of Lake Macquarie passing Speers Point  and then crossing the historic Five islands Bridge (not the new one -- lookout for the old one -- named Watkin's Bridge).  Walk into Teralba and continue over the railway bridge to begin transecting an area rich in coal mines -- old and new.  This area was previously an orcharding region with old fruit trees still in evidence as well as horse studs.  After Wakefield ( and and the F3 Freeway) you return to a trail and begin to climb Mt Myall. The may the prettiest part of the Great North Walk.




 <br><img src="http://images.everytrail.com/pics/thumbnail/1141100-Pelicans_from_Five_Islands_Bridge.JPG"/> <img src="http://images.everytrail.com/pics/thumbnail/1141098-Bee_and_flower.JPG"/> <img src="http://images.everytrail.com/pics/thumbnail/1141099-Massive_Tree_Roots.JPG"/> <img src="http://images.everytrail.com/pics/thumbnail/1141101-Trail_ascends.JPG"/> ]]></description><guid>http://www.everytrail.com/view_trip.php?trip_id=573166</guid><link>http://www.everytrail.com/view_trip.php?trip_id=573166</link><pubDate>Wed, 14 Apr 2010 00:26:39 -0500</pubDate></item><item><title><![CDATA[Flat Rock to Yarramalong- Hiking the Great North Walk]]></title><description><![CDATA[South from Flat
Rock Lookout crossing Watagan Creek, through pockets of rainforest and then up
through Olney State Forest’s stands of native timber; past a (2.2 km) spur up
Mt Warrawolong and on to the Basin Campsite. From the
campsite south along Cedar Brush Track to the trackhead to join Cedar Brush
Road as far as its intersection with Beavens Point Road 8km north of Yarramalong.  Read about the red gold rush to harvest red cedar in this region in the Great North Walk Companion. 











 <br><img src="http://images.everytrail.com/pics/thumbnail/1141092-Banksia.JPG"/> <img src="http://images.everytrail.com/pics/thumbnail/1141095-Golden_Banksia.JPG"/> <img src="http://images.everytrail.com/pics/thumbnail/1141094-GNW_signpost.JPG"/> <img src="http://images.everytrail.com/pics/thumbnail/1141093-colourful_fungus.JPG"/> ]]></description><guid>http://www.everytrail.com/view_trip.php?trip_id=573156</guid><link>http://www.everytrail.com/view_trip.php?trip_id=573156</link><pubDate>Wed, 14 Apr 2010 00:05:36 -0500</pubDate></item><item><title><![CDATA[Thornleigh to Pymble: Celts on the Great North Walk]]></title><description><![CDATA[
Beginning
near the source of Berowra Creek at the Jungo Rest Area in Elouera Park,
Westleigh to walk south on suburban bush trails through Thornleigh and South
Turramurra, finishing in West Pymble. Look out for the Political Rock Cartoon at Conscript Pass: Lorna Track and Conscript Pass are now part
of the Great North Walk running from
Thornleigh Oval to the Lane Cove River. These walks were built during the Great
Depression of the 1930s as a means of offering employment to those who had
none. The funds were provided by contributions organized by a local lady, Lorna
Brand. The carvings, by the track workers, include an arrow and name ‘Lorna
Pass’ and a caricature of the then Premier of NSW: Bertram Stevens.  Read the &quot;Companion&quot; book to learn more about this fascinating history.  








 <br><img src="http://images.everytrail.com/pics/thumbnail/1141058-LornaPass.JPG"/> <img src="http://images.everytrail.com/pics/thumbnail/1141057-GNWsignpost_at_BadenPowellCampsite.JPG"/> <img src="http://images.everytrail.com/pics/thumbnail/1141062-STEP_Turramurra.JPG"/> <img src="http://images.everytrail.com/pics/thumbnail/1141055-ConscriptPass_engraving.JPG"/> ]]></description><guid>http://www.everytrail.com/view_trip.php?trip_id=573134</guid><link>http://www.everytrail.com/view_trip.php?trip_id=573134</link><pubDate>Tue, 13 Apr 2010 23:42:40 -0500</pubDate></item><item><title><![CDATA[Watagan Forest: Tough hiking on the Aussie Great North Walk]]></title><description><![CDATA[
MODERATE to HARD (Sy&amp;gt;Nl) 28.3 km.  Tough Great North Walking. 

Flat Rock Lookout (33°  0′ 10″S, 151° 16′ 17″E) to Watagan Road (32° 58′ 5″S, 151°
23′ 41″E)            


Day 1: From Flat Rock Lookout in the north west of the
Watagan Mountains along the Watagan Track through parts of the Corragare,
Heaton and Awaba State Forests with eucalypt woods and patches of rich
rainforest, following the Congewai Valley.

Day 2: Climbing from the valley floor to cross the Myall
and Sugarloaf Ranges with look-outs revealing panoramic views of the Lower
Hunter Valley and the Central Coast. Finally following the ridge exiting onto
Watagan Road west of the Watagan campsite.  Hear about when Aliens flew over this area -- reallly! Chapter 15 of Companion book.




 <br><img src="http://images.everytrail.com/pics/thumbnail/1133721-siggpost.JPG"/> <img src="http://images.everytrail.com/pics/thumbnail/1133710-Arrow.JPG"/> <img src="http://images.everytrail.com/pics/thumbnail/1133717-Gully_trees.JPG"/> <img src="http://images.everytrail.com/pics/thumbnail/1133715-Echidna.JPG"/> ]]></description><guid>http://www.everytrail.com/view_trip.php?trip_id=570785</guid><link>http://www.everytrail.com/view_trip.php?trip_id=570785</link><pubDate>Mon, 12 Apr 2010 02:01:18 -0500</pubDate></item><item><title><![CDATA[Hawkesbury &amp; Broken Bay: Discover The Great North Walk]]></title><description><![CDATA[Best River Experience - South from Woy
Woy Bay to the coast of Broken Bay (Patonga) then west upstream on the
Hawkesbury to Brooklyn. Climbing up past Brooklyn Dam and on through
Ku-ring-gai Chase National Park, past Jerusalem Bay to Cowan station. [Plus
about 7.8 km by boat].  Pre-book your trip between Brooklyn and Patonga on the Dangar Ferry Service , opposite Hawkesbury River Marina, Brooklyn. Both en route on the Great North
Walk.  Learn more about European discovery of this bay area -- Arthur Phillip from the First Fleet (Chapter 4 of GNW Companion book).









 <br><img src="http://images.everytrail.com/pics/thumbnail/1133599-DSCN5246.JPG"/> <img src="http://images.everytrail.com/pics/thumbnail/1133601-DSCN5262.JPG"/> <img src="http://images.everytrail.com/pics/thumbnail/1133603-DSCN5279.JPG"/> <img src="http://images.everytrail.com/pics/thumbnail/1133604-DSCN5287.JPG"/> ]]></description><guid>http://www.everytrail.com/view_trip.php?trip_id=570741</guid><link>http://www.everytrail.com/view_trip.php?trip_id=570741</link><pubDate>Mon, 12 Apr 2010 00:49:44 -0500</pubDate></item><item><title><![CDATA[Murdering Gully to Warners Bay: Mysteries on the Great North Walk]]></title><description><![CDATA[Passing from
Warners Bay and a few km of suburban woodland to Charlestown and then into
Kahibah where the track continues through Glenrock State recreation area
following Flaggy Creek to Pillapay-Kullaitaran (Glenrock Lagoon).  The
Great North Walk Companion book highlights some mysteries that have occurred along The
Walk: there are more than a dozen murders, disappearances and inexplicable
deaths and all are worthy of further investigation.  The first of these happened at Murdering (or Murmuring ) gully near Newcastle and where this trail begins.  Read more in Chapter 3 of the Great North Walk Companion.








 <br><img src="http://images.everytrail.com/pics/thumbnail/1133577-Charlestown.JPG"/> <img src="http://images.everytrail.com/pics/thumbnail/1133581-ShoppingTrolleys2.jpg"/> <img src="http://images.everytrail.com/pics/thumbnail/1133578-Glenrock_Lagoon.JPG"/> <img src="http://images.everytrail.com/pics/thumbnail/1133579-Glenrock_signpost.JPG"/> ]]></description><guid>http://www.everytrail.com/view_trip.php?trip_id=570712</guid><link>http://www.everytrail.com/view_trip.php?trip_id=570712</link><pubDate>Mon, 12 Apr 2010 00:01:51 -0500</pubDate></item><item><title><![CDATA[Ancient Art near Staples Lookout on Great North Walk]]></title><description><![CDATA[The Darkinjung people have lived in the inland region
between Sydney and Newcastle, around and to the west of NSW’s Central Coast,
for more than ten thousand years. Their rich history can be witnessed in the
many rock carvings and engravings in Brisbane Water National Park. These
represent a distinctive style of Aboriginal engraving peculiar to art sites on
the Hawkesbury sandstone and unique in Australia. The flat, exposed areas of
this sandstone have provided an ideal environment for local artists over very
long periods. Of the several hundred rock engraving sites known to exist in
various NSW parks, some depict European objects including ships.

The Woy Woy rock art site is the best  although it is a bit tricky to find but offers an outstandingly
clear man, a fish, a shield and what could well be an eel and a kangaroo. Be torn between the magnificence of the panorama and the wonder evoked
by the painstaking work that these carvings so obviously represent.




 <br><img src="http://images.everytrail.com/pics/thumbnail/1133623-StaplesLookout.JPG"/> <img src="http://images.everytrail.com/pics/thumbnail/1133622-Mt_Wondabyne.JPG"/> <img src="http://images.everytrail.com/pics/thumbnail/1133625-Trackhead.JPG"/> <img src="http://images.everytrail.com/pics/thumbnail/1133626-View_from_Wondabyne_top.JPG"/> ]]></description><guid>http://www.everytrail.com/view_trip.php?trip_id=570641</guid><link>http://www.everytrail.com/view_trip.php?trip_id=570641</link><pubDate>Sun, 11 Apr 2010 22:10:42 -0500</pubDate></item><item><title><![CDATA[Circular Quay, Sydney to Hunter's Hill:  Sydney End of the Great North Walk]]></title><description><![CDATA[Almost the START(or END) of Australia's most accessible bushwalk- the Great North Walk. Our ferry
leaves from Wharf 5 and takes just 17 minutes to complete its journey. As the
boat slides through Sydney’s magnificent harbour on a wonderfully sun-drenched
morning.  Echoes of the First Fleet&quot; In that June, on the 18th in fact, Governor
Phillip sent another exploration party to land on the south bank of the Lane
Cove River and see if a westward track could be found overland to locations
suitable for settlement and farms. This excursion, with provisions for six
days, comprised four officers and a contingent of marines. They landed on the
south side of Lane Cove River probably in what is now called Alexandra Bay and
proceeded on foot as instructed in a westerly direction through what we now
call Hunter’s Hill.  Read Chapter 2 of the Companion to the Great North Walk book. 







  <br><img src="http://images.everytrail.com/pics/thumbnail/1133231-Glimpse_of_Lane_Cove_River.JPG"/> <img src="http://images.everytrail.com/pics/thumbnail/1133232-Lane_Cove_River_Mouth.JPG"/> <img src="http://images.everytrail.com/pics/thumbnail/1133238-Woolwich_Dock.JPG"/> <img src="http://images.everytrail.com/pics/thumbnail/1133236-Valentia_Street_Wharf.JPG"/> ]]></description><guid>http://www.everytrail.com/view_trip.php?trip_id=570616</guid><link>http://www.everytrail.com/view_trip.php?trip_id=570616</link><pubDate>Sun, 11 Apr 2010 21:47:31 -0500</pubDate></item><item><title><![CDATA[Mount Warrawolong: Highest Point on Great North Walk]]></title><description><![CDATA[The first Australians, the Aboriginal or indigenous
people, arrived in the north of Australia between 70,000 and 50,000 years ago.
They probably walked across a land bridge from what is now Indonesia or perhaps
came by canoe. Trade and cultural exchanges continued between these new
Australians and their ancestral families in the north for many generations.
Over time some indigenous people moved south, travelling across Australia’s
interior by what seemed to the Europeans who came much later to be magic.
Although some groups chose to live a wandering life in the deserts, many more
inhabited the Australian shoreline.  Read the Great North Walk Companion. 

 

All over Australia there are sites of significance for
its indigenous peoples. At many of these sites there are impressive displays of
art including spray paintings, charcoal designs and, most often seen and
admired, rock engravings. This ‘rock art’ is generally regarded as the oldest
surviving human art form. In Australia it can be very ancient, many tens of
thousands of years old.

 

Very early inhabitants of the region around
Mount Warrawolong are believed to be the Darkinjung people, although the
Awabakal and Wanaruah nations are also mentioned. This mountain top is thought
to have been used as a ceremonial meeting place as people from hundreds of
kilometres visited the area and made their way to Mount Yengo (25 km west of
Wollombi- see Chapter 5), which is a place of great significance throughout the ancient
nations of eastern Australia. There is frequent evidence of camping sites and
the flat, exposed areas of Hawkesbury sandstone that occur in this region have
provided an ideal ‘canvas’ for Aboriginal artists for thousands of years. Of
the very many rock art pictures to be seen, there are ancestral images of
animals and warriors from the dream-time. Perhaps surprisingly, there are also
fairly modern engravings that depict horses and even sailing ships. 



 <br><img src="http://images.everytrail.com/pics/thumbnail/1133212-Floral_reserve.JPG"/> <img src="http://images.everytrail.com/pics/thumbnail/1133217-Mt_Warrawolong_tower.JPG"/> <img src="http://images.everytrail.com/pics/thumbnail/1133218-Pacific_from_Mt_Warrawolong.JPG"/> <img src="http://images.everytrail.com/pics/thumbnail/1133215-Mt_Warra-signpost.JPG"/> ]]></description><guid>http://www.everytrail.com/view_trip.php?trip_id=570606</guid><link>http://www.everytrail.com/view_trip.php?trip_id=570606</link><pubDate>Sun, 11 Apr 2010 21:30:40 -0500</pubDate></item><item><title><![CDATA[West Pymble to Hunters Hill on Great North Walk]]></title><description><![CDATA[This section of the Aussie Great North Walk is particularly lovely - more a stroll than a hike -- so enjoy with your family. South from West Pymble (near Mars Creek confluence with Lane Cove River) to De Burgh’s Bridge; then alongside the river, past Fiddens Wharf and Lane Cove Park through the Fairyland Park near Delhi Road/M2 (at Mowbray); onwards down-river past Field of Mars and Buffalo Reserves and Boronia Park; under Victoria Road to the park fronting the river estuary and ending at Mount Street, Hunter’s Hill.  16.2 km (easy to moderate).  Read Chapter 10 of the GNW Companion for more about the area's history -- and the murder mystery too.  <br><img src="http://images.everytrail.com/pics/thumbnail/1122701-Kookaburra.JPG"/> <img src="http://images.everytrail.com/pics/thumbnail/1122713-BigSkink.JPG"/> <img src="http://images.everytrail.com/pics/thumbnail/1122698-Fairyland_sign.jpg"/> <img src="http://images.everytrail.com/pics/thumbnail/1122699-GNW_signpost.JPG"/> ]]></description><guid>http://www.everytrail.com/view_trip.php?trip_id=566602</guid><link>http://www.everytrail.com/view_trip.php?trip_id=566602</link><pubDate>Sat, 10 Apr 2010 02:22:14 -0500</pubDate></item><item><title><![CDATA[Cherry Lane to Somersby Store on Great North Walk]]></title><description><![CDATA[Beginning 3km south of Yarramalong at the intersection of Greta
Road and Cherry Lane.  Walk along
Cherry Lane turning left onto footpath near it end to regain the Great North Walk proper.  Trail leads past fields and then down into small deep gullies
to meet Toohey’s Road just at Milligans Range (campsite here).  After about 2km on Toohey’s Road the
trail heads south (right) through woodland forest with deep gullies passing
Stringy Bark Point (campsite) where you scramble across the creek once and then
gain across Ourimbah Creek by small bridge to follow the trail along Ourimbah
Creek and up to Ourimbah Creek Road where there are riding stables. Turn south
off the road into semi-tropical forest with a deep gully across stepping stones
eventually climbing up to Kilkenny Road, crossing Dog Trap Road and walking to
Somersby Store.Read the history and story of walkers in &quot;The Great North Walk Companion&quot; http://www.thegreatnorthwalk.com/OrderDPA 




 <br><img src="http://images.everytrail.com/pics/thumbnail/1122288-Horses_Yarramalong.JPG"/> <img src="http://images.everytrail.com/pics/thumbnail/1122475-Fern_gulley.JPG"/> <img src="http://images.everytrail.com/pics/thumbnail/1122510-SomersbyStore.jpg"/> <img src="http://images.everytrail.com/pics/thumbnail/1122481-SignPost.JPG"/> ]]></description><guid>http://www.everytrail.com/view_trip.php?trip_id=566528</guid><link>http://www.everytrail.com/view_trip.php?trip_id=566528</link><pubDate>Fri, 9 Apr 2010 23:48:41 -0500</pubDate></item><item><title><![CDATA[Queen's Wharf to Glenrock: Start of the Great North Walk]]></title><description><![CDATA[Officially Queen's Wharf Tower is the START of the Great North Walk. So, from the Queen’s
Wharf in central Newcastle, NSW, follow a well-signed path south through urban
Newcastle passing first the main railway station and then the cathedral.  Climb Shepherd’s Hill (more in Chapter 3 of the Companion book) and view the
famous Newcastle ‘seafarers’ obelisk’ and ancient
drinking fountain.   Follow
the coastal cliff catching glimpses of bird and human gliders before descending
to beach level to find trail of community pools and history explanatory
signs.  Pass Bar Beach, Dixon Park
and Merewether to Burwood Beach. 
Learn the some of the stories attributed to Murdering Gully and then
search for coal in outcrops at Glenrock Lagoon.  



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