Post about daywalks
While visiting the NSW South Coast town of Moruya, a beautiful winters day saw us do a short out and back from Mullimburra Point to Bingi Bing Point. This walk provides a sample of the Bingi Dreaming coastal walk from Congo to Tuross. We didn’t have another car to do the car shuffle needed for the whole walk.
Cowan to Brooklyn (after more Covid lockdown and a very very wet Sydney summer and autumn.)
Another Covid lockdown before Christmas and Sydney’s very very wet summer and autumn has kept me off the trails. My friend Rodney and I took advantage of a glorious winter day to do this next GNW section.
The Glenelg river flows into the see at Nelson, near the Victoria border with South Australia. Nelson is the western turning point of the Great South West Walk, which follows down the Glenelg River and through the gorge just upstream. We did a short out and back walk through the gorge, dodgeing rain.
Cape Bridgewater is a remnant of a volcanic crater overlain by pleistocene sandy limestones and holocene dunes. It lies west of Portland, looking back east to Cape Nelson across Bridgewater bay, with many interesting features. We visitied on a day trip from Portland, dodging a little rain.
Cape Nelson is one of the headlands near Portland in Victoria which we visited in April 2022 on a road trip to Victoria. It was named in December 1800 by Lieutenant James Grant after his ship HMS Lady Nelson. It was also the most southern point of Major Thomas Mitchell’s journey “Australia Felix” in 1836.
We visited a couple of places on Cape Nelson as a day trip. There is plenty more left to see. Part of the tracks here are on the Great Southwest Walking Track.
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