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Date: 28 March 2019
Par�cipants: Chris�ne Loh, Soo Lee Chen, Steven Sim, Col Pren�ce, Douglas Irvin, Kumiko Suzuki, Jacqui
Hickson, Prospec�ves Tony Carolan, Charles Algert

A pleasant walk through the lush and peaceful bushland of the Charles decided to take a
Rail to River Walk alongside Chatswood Golf Course brought detour down to the Blue
us to the entrance of Lane Cove Na�onal Park near Fullers Hole for more picture
Bridge. Lane Cove River Park, as it was then known, was taking.
opened to the public in 1938, one year before the founding of
The crossing at De Burgh
The Bush Club.
Creek was almost
The Park is very popular with outdoor enthusiasts during the unrecognizable with all
weekend but luckily, we had the tracks almost to ourselves on the trees and debris from
the day of the walk. We meandered along the gentle terrain of recent storms but it
Riverside Walk un�l we got to De Burghs Bridge, with a few seemed to make the
stops along the way for group photographs. We also saw quite crossing even easier.
a number of water dragons, ducks and brush turkeys. Thanks to Jacqui, we took
a slight detour up the fire
trail to view the
aboriginal carvings.

At this stage, the leader
was le� wondering about
the defini�on of
Walk descrip�on: “unhurried pace” as
From Chatswood Sta�on, walk down to Lane Cove River via some indicated that the pace was too fast and some indicated
Blue Gum Reserve, then do a loop walk of the river (Riverside it was too slow. One of the prospectives, decided to sign off
walk and GNW) and return to Chatswood via Rail to River so he could con�nue the walk at a faster pace. The rest of the
Walk. Good bush tracks with some street walking at the group stopped at a rocky pla�orm for lunch. The weather
beginning andend. Onemajor creek crossingand a steepclimb turned out to be rather hot and humid and another coffee
at the end. Map: STEP Lane Cove Valley break at the cafe near Lane Cove weir was welcomed. Two

more members decided to leave at the bus stop at Fullers
Report:
The Great North Walk side of the river was a bit more Bridge, while the rest retraced our steps uphill to Chatswood
Due to major sewage work in the Blue Gum Reserve, we had
interesting with beau�ful gum trees, rocky outcrops, via the Rail to River Walk. Congratula�ons to the prospec�ve,
to walk to and from Chatswood via the Rail to River Walk. So, Tony Carolan, who finished his first walk with the Club
the walk became slightly longer at 18km and it was no longer sandstone overhangs and more undula�ng terrain. Even sa�sfactorily. Thanks to Steven Sim for taking the pictures.
a Figure 8 walk. though the river looked rather murky, we could s�ll see
beau�ful reflec�ons of gum trees on its surface. Steven and

Report by: Chris�ne Loh 53 Photos: Chris�ne Loh, Steven Sim, passer-by