A highly recommended walk in Tidbinbilla Nature Reserve.
Some distance before you reach Tidbinbilla Nature Reserve you will notice a bunch of rocks on the horizon. This is Gibraltar Peak which, once you have reached Tidbinbilla, can be reached in three ways, all by foot. Continue reading “Gibraltar Peak Walk – Tidbinbilla Nature Reserve”
For those who like to get an overview of Gundagai there are two lookouts worth the short trip involved in getting there – Mount Parnassus and Rotary. Neither trip need take longer than 20 minutes (unless you want it to). Continue reading “Gundagai from Mount Parnassus and Rotary Lookouts”
Red Hill ridge separates the central Canberra valley from the Woden Valley to the south and affords excellent views of both Canberra and Woden (the city’s first ‘new town’). Most likely named after the red soil in the area (or perhaps the autumn tree colours), the summit is 734 metres high. Like Mount Ainslie and Black Mountain Reserve there are numerous walking/cycling tracks on Red Hill. Continue reading “Red Hill Lookout – Why so called?”
Most Canberrans know City Hill, not by name, but rather as mound or, less fetchingly, a carbuncle, on the landscape that you have to drive around at the lower end of Northbourne Avenue, before crossing Lake Burley Griffin via Commonwealth Bridge. Continue reading “City Hill – For A Very Different View”
Residential development on the southern part of Palm Beach and the headland separating it from Whale Beach means that there are very few places to get an elevated view of the beach, and beyond, from the south, unless you befriend a resident. Continue reading “‘……. And The Firmament Sheweth His Handywork’ – Bible Garden”
At the northern end of the Pittwater Peninsula, Barrenjoey Headland commands the entrance to Broken Bay, the Hawkesbury River and The Pittwater. Throughout the 19th century The Pittwater (see my separate review) was an important shipping route giving access to Sydney, used by legitimate traders and smugglers alike. It also provided temporary safe anchorage for passing ships seeking to escape a storm. Safe access to it from the ocean was an imperative. Continue reading “Barrenjoey Lighthouse & Its Luckless Early Keepers”
The Clock Tower, or Council Tower, is the most imposing and impressive of Sighisoara’s towers and the one though which the majority of visitors enter and leave the Citadel area. Continue reading “The Clock Tower And Its Museums”
Bradleys Point is the largest intact area of remnant vegetation remaining in the Inner Sydney Harbour area. This is, in no small measure, due to the fact that the point has, since European settlement, until it became a park been in the hands of the military (navy), thus precluding commercial development. At the very end of the 19th century attempts to develop part of the headland as a mining camp came to nought when a public outcry lead to the cancellation of a mining lease which would have permitted the extraction of a coal seam under the harbour in this area. Continue reading “Bradleys Head and its Naval Connections”
Black Mountain is probably the most visited (over 430,000 visitors per annum) of the three main lookouts in Canberra. The other two are Mount Ainslie (my favourite) and Red Hill lookouts. Given vegetation around the base of the Tower you will see nothing unless you pay and go up the tower. Continue reading “Black Mountain (Telstra) Tower”
Leaving aside a stroll around Lake Burley Griffin, the Mt Ainslie Summit walk (sometimes referred to as the Kokoda Track after the famous WWII Kokoda Trail in neighbouring Papua New Guinea) is the most popular short walk in Canberra. You will find people along this track from pre-dawn till late evening. If you are up to it this is a must do walk. Continue reading “Walk Up Mt Ainslie”
The Rambling Wombat 