Post on walking
Berowra to Cowan via Berowra Waters (on the trail again post Covid Lockdown)
The end of Covid lockdown in Sydney means we can travel more than 5km from home, so its time to get back on the GNW trail. My son had a some time off from work so we picked a warm October day for this next section.
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The route I chose for this section combines pieces from three of the GNW day walks to take me from Hornsby station to Berowra station. The section of GNW through Berowra Creek north of Fishponds is closed due to the Hornsby firing range, so the route has been diverted back up to the streets of Hornsby and back into Berowra creek at Clarinda St wetlands. Also, I have previously walked Lyrebird Gully track to and from Mt Kuring-gai station and while it is a lovely walk, it is not much further to push on from Sams creek to Berowra, avoiding Lyrebird gulley on this part and the next.
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Starting from Thornleigh Station, then down Zig-Zag creek to the upper reaches of Berowra Creek and then downstream along Berowra Creek, across Waitara Creek and back up to Hornsby via “The Spa” and Fishponds, I have to say that was a lovely and very enjoyable walk of around 11 km on a beautiful late May day. A wonderful way to spend a few hours, so close to Sydney suburbia.
The fantastic track notes are here : http://www.wildwalks.com/bushwalking-and-hiking-in-nsw/berowra-valley-regional-park/thornleigh-to-hornsby.html
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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