2022 07 21 Kaleen Lyneham Ridge O’Connor Ridge AIS Walk

This was a 10Km walk on open fields around Kaleen, Lyneham Ridge, O’Connor Ridge Nature reserve and the Australian Institute of Sport.

Featured image – View of  Advert outside Vietnamese Sakyamuni Buddhist Centre about dinner on Fri & Sat nights. Note Karuna is closing in August 2022 for an extended break

I did this walk around some of East Belconnen’s easier walking areas with fellow walker Drew McDonald. As it turned out we developed another easy to medium walk that should be suitable for the older guys from Melba Shed. It also was done to fill in time we had available as we could not go to Bywong-Wamboin to walk their Greenways due to the rain that had started much earlier than the weather bureau had predicted. Thus we started in drizzling rain which kept us out of any thick grass sections.

Overall the walk was nice and had a variety of grassy pads to some bitumen and concrete paths as well as dirt foot pads.  There were also some kangaroos on Lyneham Ridge.

Overall we had to use two underpasses to travel from one side of Gungahlin Drive to the other on two occasions. We also had to cross Ginninderra Drive twice, once on a large overhead foot bridge across and once crossing at traffic lights, which was fine with no traffic.

Overall this was an Easy Medium gentle walk of 10Km, taking 3hrs 4 min, including a short coffee and hot chocolate break at U & Co Cafe in Kaleen at the Gwydir Square shops. Note that Kaleen had three shopping centres in total. Gwydir Square is the mostly southerly one.

Map of our walk | files including gps located in Google Drive 

Notes re Map:  GPS Map View provided using Garmin Basecamp with OSM base | The area of the walk is covered by the NSW 1:25,000 topo map CANBERRA although it not that usefull