The Bush Club - an excellent bushwalking club if you happen to live in the Sydney Area. Click on the logo to go to their website.
Bushwalking in Sydney
I’ve been getting over a very sad relationship break-up the last six weeks so I decided to get out and meet some new people and try to jolly myself along into a better frame of mind. After a quick Google search of bushwalking clubs in the Sydney area I found one that seemed to have a good range of activities.
Today I went for my third walk with them, around Patonga Ridge on the Hawkesbury River. We covered from where the Brooklyn ferry drops you off, out to the point looking down onto Patonga and then all the way back to The Palisades before dropping back down to the ferry wharf for the ride back to Brooklyn.
A very interesting day. The wildflowers on the shrubs and smaller plants were starting to flower all over the place. (They flower more in mid-late winter than spring in the Sydney area). Little delicate flowers of blue, purple, pink and every shade in between, set against the beautiful greens of the leaves and leavened with the occasional yellow flowering bush for contrast.
The banksias are all old and grumpy (see May Gibbs) from last spring’s flowering and the strong winds made the trees swish away above us for hours.
Throw in some amazing rock formations on the ridge - wind-hewn caves, overhangs, ledges, tunnels - and it was some walk! It was about 14km with a reasonable bit of up and down and a fair amount of off-track walking. It was a great day, but now I’m quite ready for a hot shower and bed!
But I still miss my Elisa.
