2021 01 14 Ginninderra Ck Florey Social Walk with MelbaShed
This was a 7.5Km social walk from a Melba Shed Car Park through the suburbs of Melba, Evatt and Florey. This was Melba Shed walk No 244 of 14th Jan 2021
Featured image – Guys on the south side of Ginninderra Ck in Evatt, Canberra
I led this walk with 6 walking. We all met at the Shed by 8AM & from 8.08AM we walked down & under Copland Dr & then along the path along Ginninderra Ck, crossing over a bridge to walk along a footpad up to the walkway below Ginninderra Dam, before crossing Ginninderra Dr & walking back along the dam causeway path stopping to view some research staff catching, tagging & releasing fish.
We then continued around part of the lake before leaving it & walking under Coulter Drive & taking lane ways up to Florey shops for coffee, shakes & snacks at a pop up Cafe Cesars. In Aug 2020 – Cafe Cesars opened at Florey Shops. See them on Facebook. The original pop up coffee shop and cafe was Bolivars. Its been relaunched and improved as Cesars. Coffee was good. Lots of music from the tree behind the portal tables and chairs for the patrons. We had great service.
We then wound our way through the west side of Florey, under Ginninderra Dr & back to the Shed car park by 10.32AM.
Our resident arborist Ian de Plater, told us about the Eucalyptus mannifera, also known as brittle gum or widow maker. Its been planted next to the Light Rail. Ian found it along several Florey lanes. Ouch.
He also found that Florey is also infested with Privet (Ligustrum lucidum).
It was an Easy-Medium social walk of 7.5Km, taking 2hrs 24m incl the break
Walkers: Bob Salmond, Harry Angel, Ian de Platter, John Edge, Peter Coppin, Greg Hutchison
Map of walk | Pictures in Google Photos | files including gps located in Google Drive
Notes re Map: GPS Map View provided using Garmin Basecamp on an Open Streets Map (OSM) NSW base | The area of the walk is covered by the NSW 1:25,000 topo maps CANBERRA.
