A beautiful April day saw us do Part 2 with our visitors from Victoria. Starting from Lindfield and walking through our local streets to our starting point at Fiddens Wharf.
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The Great North Walk (GNW) is a 250km walk from Sydney to Newcastle.
Very good information on this can be found here:
http://www.thegreatnorthwalk.com/
So there is not much point adding to that. I think one of the great things about GNW is many section can be done using public transport for start and finish access points.
The walk can be done in lots of ways, but here its a bits and bobs approach by which I mean a bit at a time. So day walks etc, which may be out of order. I have walked a couple of sections in the past too.
Since I live in Lindfield, close to the Lane Cover River valley, the first section of the GNW for me is from the start in Macquarie Place in Sydney and walk home. For others a different end route will lead to North Ryde station.
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There are many good walks on West Head, one of best is the Resolute Beach Loop. This is my variation which extends the walk a bit, at the expense of a bit of road walking to close the loop, including (Great) Mackerel Beach rather than visit it as an out and back. The walk is on the eastern side of West Head and visits 3 beaches in Pittwater. About 10km, with time for swimming on the way.
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This is a great short walk near Palm Beach, Sydney with views and a historic destination.
Broken Bay is to the north of Sydney Harbour and is another impressive body of water. Barrenjoey light safeguards shipping from the southern headland and the northern shore defines the start of the Central Coast.
The view north and south from here, cliffs, beaches and inlets provide a great exposition of why this coast was named “New South Wales”
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This is the Eulogy I gave for my dad, Emeritus Professor Noel Thompson Drane, who passed away in September 2019. He was 92.
