2022 10 27 Aranda Cook Jamison Circuit with Melba Shed
This was a 5.3Km Easy-Medium circular walk through suburbs of Aranda, Cook and Jamison in Belconnen in Canberra as well as some of Aranda Bushland Nature Reserve. This was Melba Shed walk No 280 of 27th Oct 2022.
Featured image – View of Cockatoo In Gum Tree
I led this walk with 3 of us walking. We all assembled at the car park next to the Emergency Services depot on Bindubi St, Aranda near Jamison by 8.45AM.
We left around 8.53AM & walked east across the Aranda Playing fields & adjacent to a school. After travelling for 250m we turned south & went under Bandjalung Cres, then past Aranda Prinary School & the old Aranda shops.
We followed the walking path all the way to the top of Aranda & entered Aranda Bushland after 900m.
We then went downhill over a range of various grassy & muddy tracks until we found out way to Bindubi St joining the bike path & going under Bindubi St to turn north & head up over a small hill to reach the edge of the Wyabalena Special Estate area.
We then went west a little before trying several wet & muddy sections passing Wybalena area & joining the cycling path that headed down north towards Belconnen Town centre.
We crossed a couple of main streets before coming into Jamison Centre from its west side over several lanes.
We ended by having a coffee & 2 hot chocolates at Ricardos Cafe. We finished at 10.56AM while one walker stayed in Jamison for some shopping. A nice little easy type of walk with a wide range of paths and vegetation.
Easy-Medium walk of 5.3km. We started walking at 8.53AM & returned to the cars at 10.56AMPM thus taking 2hr3m.
Walkers: Drew McDonald, Harry Angel, Greg Hutchison
Drivers: All of us
Map of walk | Pictures in Google Photos | files including gps located in Google Drive
Notes re Map: GPS Map View provided using Garmin Mapsource on an Open Street Maps (OSM) base.
The area of the walk is covered by the NSW 1:25,000 topo map CANBERRA.
