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Date: 27 March 2019
Par�cipants: Lyndal Lawless, Jan Mathieson, Jeane�e Ibrahim, Bill Rathborne, Laurie Olsen, Lindsey Paget-
Cooke, Soo Lee Chen, Jill Green, Tom Halbert, Warren Southey, Chris Edwards, Carol Henderson, Evelyn
Dowling, Diane Lancaster, John Maltby, Stuart Coulter
a�ached to our group. Back to our original number,
we continued on to the Spit, then into Middle
Harbour.
A close inspection of Quakers Hat determined that it
barely deserves its name due to years of erosion. On
to Primrose Park for lunch, where we met up with
Alan Sauran, who ceremoniously handed to John
Maltby an old pair of walking boots to add to his
garden collection.

Passing under the stone “suspension“ bridge to
Northbridge, we continued along and across Flat
Rock Creek, then under the road tunnel until we
reached Henry Lawson’s cave, an ideal place for a
drink stop and a short poetry reading -“Cha�ie’s
Walk descrip�on: Wood”. No doubt this was wri�en by Lawson in a
This is a 20 km walk through local hotel in exchange for a rather stronger drink or
Sydney Harbour National Park, two. The gelato bar in Artarmonwas a welcome sight
then walking through some at the end of the walk.
streets and pathways. Sydney
Harbour map.

Report:
On a pleasant if slightly overcast
day sixteen Bush Club walkers set
off from Taronga Zoo ferry wharf
and walked around the harbour
foreshore. We soon overtook a
group of NPA walkers who were
on a photography walk, only to
discover at morning tea that one
of them had inadvertently
Report by: Lyndal Lawless 51 Photos: Lyndal Lawless, John Maltby