Canning River Walk Saturday June 30

A very cold morning. It was turn to drive this week. As the walk was a loop from Kent Street Weir toNicho Nicholson Road and back along the other side of the river to where we started from, it was close to home so I didn't collect Peter until 7:25am.

The walk was about 7km in length, as the pictures below show, the river looked exceedingly beautiful with the mist rising from the water.

We finished the walk with the relatively new Canning River Cafe, right next to the weir. service was slow as per my last visit, but the coffee was so good we had a second one.

Next week the walk is at Yanchep Park a good 1.5 hrs from home, so don't know if Peter will be up to it.

 

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Saturday June 23 River to South Beach

Peter was back on the walk today. He was not impressed by my 30 minute late arrival. The cold weather at 4 Deg. didn't help my motivation.

Today's walk was a bit further than what we usually do. We walked from between the traffic bridges on the Swan River, past the E Shed Markets, through the Fishing Boat Harbor and then almost onto South Beach.

Unfortunately I left my camera battery behind and missed out on the pictures of the sea views across to Garden Island and Rottnest Island. The view was so clear, you felt you could almost touch the islands.

On our way back to the car we had breakfast at Moores Cafe opposite Notra Dame University. Rustic and also seemed to be quite popular. We settled for the scrambled egg and salmon, with the coffee.

We got back home today a little louder than usual at about 10:30am. Next week our walk is very much closer to home.

 

Saturday June 16 Rocky Bay

Peter couldn't make it to today's walk. As I headed to Fremantle it looked very wet and there was a slight drizzle. I also had difficulty finding the commencement location for the walk. after a couple tries down different streets I found the spot.

This particular area interests me as where I did my Apprenticeship as a Fitter at the State Engineering Works has now been replaced by the building of many beautiful homes on the rivers edge.

The walk turned out to be quite fine, with the rain holding off. At the commencement of the walk a women was walking her chocolate Labrador it was one of the nicest I had seen. The correct term is liver colored.

Some of the river views in this section of the river are really quite magnificent. There is a gazebo at the highest point, an area saved from housing, with a beautiful view of the river. This would be a great location for an ecclesial activity.

One the way home I visited the Perth CBD to pickup a few items! It was interesting to note that they have started the new river development on the esplanade foreshore.

 

 

Freshwater Bay Peppermint Grove

A cool morning but there was no rain. We had a short walk along Freshwater Bay, very beautiful to say the least. We left the bay and walked a short way along the road before returning the way we had come. The walk was only about 40 minutes in time, but there was a bit of hill climbing which helped get the heart rate up. In this walk I also showed Peter the nest of a Sea Eagle that I had pointed out to me on an earlier walk, there was no bird on the nest.

At my assistance we had breakfast at Daisies Cafe in Claremont. I was less than impressed by being served food on plastic plates with plastic knives and forks and coffee served in takeaway cups.

Next week's walk should be at Rocky Bay.

 

 

 

Saturday June 2, Claremont Foreshore

Yes another magnificent walk on a very beautiful Saturday. That is four terrific Saturdays in a row.

We arrived at the Claremont foreshore at 7:30am. The tide was up so in sections it was difficult to walk on the waters edge. Some parts of the river went right up to the cliff face and there was no room to walk, so we had to for a small section walk along the street.

The last section we had to slightly dip our shoes in the water before emerging at Pt Resolution Reserve. We then walked back to the car along Victoria Ave. There is some really nice properties in this area.

We had breakfast at cafe in the The Old School Lane, Claremont Quarter. nNew owners and a really nice breakfast. Before heading home we visited Coles to collect a few items.

 

Claremont Museum

 

May 26 Pt Walter to Blackwall Reach

Today is was cold but his did not deter our walk. I was at Peter's place just after 6:45am which is not too bad for a still semi dark morning and the cold weather, conducive to further sleeping. Peter was the Driver today.

Blackwall Reach

We arrived at Pt Walter at around 7:15am. This walk was not too long, about 4km in length, not far enough on a cold morning to get a sweat up. We walked along the river front for a short while, turned left at the Pt and then made our way up the hill to Blackwall Reach. A pleasant walk along the track through the bush reserve to where the path emerged at the waterfront again. We then made our way back following the old tram line through the reserve. The Pt Walter Cafe was not yet open, so we had breakfast at the Merchant Tea Rooms in Risely Street. I took up Peter's recommended health option of having a protein rich breakfast, but the bread shouldn't be included.

Next week is a longer walk of 10km along the river at Claremont foreshore.

 

 

 

Crawley walk Saturday May 20

I thought last Saturday was magnificent, today was better again. Peter is still out of action until next Saturday. The weather was warm with a lovely breeze blowing.

The walk was not long, about 4 km. it was from Mounts Bay Rd along the foreshore of Crawley Bay to Foreshore of Nedlands. A lot of these walks now have interesting historical plaques to read, and this one was no different.

I stopped off at the Crawley Bay cafe for a refreshing coffee on the way back to the car.

These plaques are interesting how they remember the Catalina boat flights from Melville water to Ceylon during WWII. These were the longest regular flights in the world at the time.

Must be why they call it Pelican Point.

Thoughts this group of birds roosting at the Crawley Baths was interesting.

Next week's walk is Pt Walter to Blackwall Reach.

 

Walk between Narrows and Causeway

Peter is still out of action but should join me next Saturday. I have done this walk before, but repeated it, as it is in the walking guide that I'm following. The weather today was superb compared to last week. The sun is warm with a cool breeze blowing, a really good combination.

I commenced walking at 10:15am starting at Coode Street jetty and headed west toward the Narrows bridge. All up this is a 10km walk by the time you complete the loop from the Narrows to the Causeway, walking past the Perth foreshore.

There was plenty of walkers and cyclists of all ages and sizes. As I walked through the park in the middle of the freeway interchange it was interesting to stop and read the plaque on how the engineering work was done so that a freeway and bridge could be built on a muddy river bed. There are also regular photo information spots that tell you what was happening on that part of the river a hundred or less years ago.

I stopped at the Barrack street jetty and had a macilatia coffee, I need to learn how to spell it. Some what stronger than a cupachino. I also found next to the Bell Tower the tiles that the kids signed in 2000 when they were at Wattle Grove Primary, I could only recognize Joshua's signature. The tiles are set in the ground. It was only there first name and the initial of their last name, all very interesting looking back in time.

From here I continued down the foreshore and enjoyed the section of the river where they had returned a small section back to what the foreshore would have originally looked like. In this area is also a bust I haven't noticed before to Baudin the French explorer who visited this coast and location in 1801. Perth would have been a very different place if it had been a French settlement. Federation would have been a lot more difficult in 1901, plus all the wealth in the ground on this part of the continent would have created tension with the rest of the continent if not shared, yet Canada seems to have sorted out some of these difficulties with Quebec. We may have ended up with French influence having a nicer designed city and better cuisine.

Next week's walk is at Pt Walter.

 

 

Walk Saturday May 4 2012

Peter my walking partner was out of action today, probably running around doing jobs for his wife, my sister.

 

 

I was expecting some rain, but there was nothing beyond a few spits of water. This was only a short walk around the redeveloped East Perth Cove, of about 3 km. next week will be a longer walk of around 10 km between the Narrows and the Causeway.

 

I started today's walk a little later at around 9:30am, it is quite interesting the number of other people out walking.

 

John George Walk Trail April 28

We commenced our first walk for about three weeks as there was the Bible School and my recent trip to Vietnam.

I arrived a little behind schedule in picking Peter, slept in. Today's walk is in Midland along the river, John George Walk Trail. Peter has worked with the man the trail is named after.He did a lot for the community, but died suddenly on the verge of his retirement.

 

The walk was supposed to be 4km in each direction, but we found it hard to believe it was that long. It was very pleasant, a well made pathway. There is a very beautiful playground area being created at the commencement of the walk.

 

A very easy and pleasant walk, finished off with a coffee and eggs at a nice cafe in Midland.

 

The Magnificent Five

Todays walk was a little different as it involved Peter Schifferli, Greg Hurn, Peter Maddon, Axel Jansen and myself of course. 

We jumped the scheduled program and did the walk from Mt Henry Bridge to Canning Bridge, return. Stated to be 8 kilometres, but I feel we walked it too quick to be that far. Talking with friends the time goes very quick.

Our walk commenced a little latter than usual at 8:45am, it is better to get going at our usual time of around 7:30am. There was so many people out walking and cycling, you had to be careful not to get run over. The river looked magnificent, some of the houses that are built along Mt Pleasant, you wonder how they afford to build such huge structures.

This will be the last walk for me until the last weekend in April, as next weekend is the Easter Bible School and then we are off to Vietnam until April 21. Plan to get a walk in on April 28, but I'm sure we walk a plenty in Vietnam.

Mt Henry Bridge Canning River

View from Mt Henry Bridge to Perth

Axel Jansen and Peter Maddon

Greg Hurn and Peter Schifferli

Guildford Walk

A really nice Saturday morning, has go that Autumn coolness in the air. Today another short 4km walk, this time around the historic Guildford township. To add to the interest their are various plaques with descriptions about the various historic building and sites. Some of the building go back to the 1830s and 40s, very earliest years of the colony.

After our brisk walk we finished our time off with a coffee and scambled eggs at Jezebels a new coffee house. While sitting there a lady Peter knew from the days he worked in Swan Shire stopped to say hello.

No pictures today as I didn't pull the camera out of my bag. Next week we have a 8km walk along the river foreshore in the Guildford area.

Fremantle Heritage Walk

Today we had an easy walk of 4 kilometres around Fremantle. Weather was lovely, with a touch of coolness in the air. The walk went from Kings Square down high street, right down side street to the wharf then left past the Round House and then we went through the Fishing boat harbour area across Esplanade Park, past the Freo Markets (I bought a mango and paw paw while there) then back to the car.

On the way home we called by Zephers for a coffee. Peter informed me Zepher means wind. Peter also generously purchased a plate of bacon and eggs to energies us after our walk. Before returning to Peter's place we gave Lydia a visit. Next week our walk is around Guildford.

 

 

 

 

Kings Park walk Sat March 10 2012

Today is to be a 38deg day so we commenced the walk a little after 7:00am. Peter joined me on this walk. We parked the car next to Fraser's Restuarant in Kings Park. The park and the views are quite stunning, and the day had not yet heated up. We made our way along the scarpe getting a lovely view from the elevated platform. The walk then turned in land and double backed on itself and we ended up at the DNA Tower. From here we had the broad walk down to the children's play area. From here we followed the road back to where the car was parked. We lost a little part of our journey as the map was not very clear and we didn't get to do the detour through the bush part of Kings Park. All up we walked for about 1.5hrs.

Walking again

To my shame besides the more or less regular walks from where I live to a circuit around my neighborhood, I haven't done any adventurous walks for a while.

This week Kathryn bought me a book on walks around Perth. This motivated me to do a circuit of about 7km from the CBD, Up to Kings Park, behind the parliament and down St George's TCE.

This was a pleasant walk of about 80 minutes. The only downside was the parking fine of $50 as I was 20 minutes too late back to my car.

 

Bishop house Perth CBD

view of city from Kings Park

I Haven't Given up Completely

Unfortunately I have not been regular in my updates on my walking for 6 months now - but I'm still walking. The weather has been so warm and hot in Perth, even now we still can't get below the low 30s. I regularly on evenings walk for about 40 minutes in my neighbourhood. A couple of weeks ago I had a nice 50 minute walk each way to Carousel Shopping Centre in Cannington. Much of the walk was along the Canning River. I'm in the early stages of planning a 5 day walk with Steve again along the last section of the Biblimum Track from Denmark to Albany in October. Maybe some longer walks will appear in my blog as the weather cools.

Hills Walk Saturday October 30th 2010

Kathryn and Megan are in Thailand till tomorrow night. I took the opportunity to have dinner with my good friends Tim and Ruth Moore. They live in the Perth "hills", actually a scarpe, not hills, but they look like hills from the coastal plain. After dinner, being a very pleasant evening Tim and I had a walk for about an hour, probably between 5 and 6 kilometres. The walk circuit took in part of the old railway line that is now a major walk, bridle and bike track from the base of the scarp to well in land. This track is part of the railway reserve trails, 59 kilometes or railway turned in a walkway. Another great walk with a friend.

Cape to Cape Day 7 Cosy Corner to Cape Leeuwin

 

Today is the last leg of the walk. Last legs should be the key word. I have found myself tired the last two days. The walk on Wednesday close to 30km seems to have used all my reserves up. Steve is the Alpha male as he seems to have boundless energy.

We departed from Cosy Corner at around 8:40am. We had a short half hour walk through the coastal heath before we came onto the beach. The beach area  was quite interesting as one half of the Cosy Corner beach is a low limestone ledge that when the sea has a large enough swell would have many active blowholes. Many sections of the ledges are collapsing into the sea.

On the next headland we came across two women in their 30s who had done in 5 days what had taken us 7! Their husbands were looking after their children, and they were collected each evening, just like we were. The next major beach was Deepdene. A very long and beautiful beach. It took about 75 minutes to walk the beach, most of it being quite firm to walk on except the last 15 minutes of walking. While trying to walk on the firmer sand close to the water edge I managed to get my shoes soaked, not a nice experience.

By morning tea time we caught up with the tour party at the south end of Deepdene beach and the beginning of a long rock ledge. From the Deepdene beach we could see just and faintly, Leeuwin Lighthouse. Unfortunately we turned off the beach too early, stumbling across what is planned as a track alteration and we walked well inland on a four wheel drive track, ascending to a great height, and breathless, before we realised we had become lost. This little adventure probably cost us 45 minutes of time, and much energy. Meanwhile we returned to the beach and continued along the rock ledge, ascending from the beach front to have lunch at a lookout, joining the the large walking party for lunch. We could now clearly see the lighthouse in the distance. Just before we departed leaving the main group behind, we heard their tour leader saying that the Cumberland rocks offshore were the antipods to Washington. rather interesting.

We then had a short walk, up an incline to a ridge that took us through some quite high coastal heath. We were about 8 km walking distance from the lighthouse. Probably in a straight line it was barely 6 kms away. It became very obvious as we got close to the lighthouse that the vegetation was becoming softer and lusher, an indication of an increased rainfall. Cape Leeuwin averages just under 1000mm of rain per year.

For the last kilometre we ended back on the beachfront. We came across the book registration location and Steve signed us off. On one of the last beaches we crossed it had freshwater dripping from the cliff face at a steady rate. We both filled up one our water bottles and it tasted pretty good. After completing the last beach and visiting the lime encrusted water wheel we walked up to the lighthouse coffee shop to meet Kathryn and Nola. This was the first time we were late, arriving at 2.30pm, when we estimated 2.00pm. We would have been early if it had not been for getting lost for a short while.  After a drink and obtaining our certificates for completing the walk I felt very tired but satisfied that we had completed the journey.

Cape to Cape Day 6 Booranup Forest to Cosy Corner

So far I feel yesterday’s walk was the most challenging. Today we arrived at our starting point in the Booranup Forest at 9:20am. The start of the walk was very easy, we made good time through an easy track in the midst of the Karri Forest. After 30 minutes the track turned towards the coast and the Karri’s were soon left behind. The track started to become an up and down walk over the coastal heath. After about 90 minutes we made it to the beach. The large tour group we catch up with each day was just in front of us on the beach.

The beach walk was a long one into Hamelin Bay. The beach walk was about 6 kilometres long not all that difficult as the sand was quite firm. It was a glorious day and we made good time. I had a chat with one of the ladies on the tour group and she explained that the walk was very enjoyable and well organised. We arrived at the Hamelin Bay settlement at about twelvish. The seabreeze came in as we had our lunch overlooking the beautiful waters.

After lunch we made our way along another small beach for about 20 minutes before the track turned inland. The walk inland was quite challenging over quite steep hills. After a strenuous and demanding walk we reached a small lighthouse referred to as Foul Bay Lighthouse. The view from the lighthouse location was beautiful. It was an easy 15 minute walk to Cosy Corner road for our pickup. We will start from this location for our last part of the walk tomorrow.

Cape to Cape Day 5 Prevally Park to Booranup Forest

We are into a regular routine. We all arise between 6:30am and 7:00am. after breakfast and final preparations for the days walk completed, we usually arrive at our starting point at 9:00am.

Today we headed off from Prevally Park (mouth of Margaret River), the walk initially went behind the township and quite some distance inland. This was to be a long walk at 26 plus kilometres. After skirting the township we ended eventually on the beachfront. Today was particularly beautiful, the most consistent day weather wise we have experienced.

After about an half hour of up and downs through relatively easy walking country we came to a very steep descent, about 300 steps down to the valley of a brook. The large tour group we catch up with each day were having their morning tea in a nice area shady area next to the brook.

We then followed the brook until it reached the ocean. We had a quite strenuous walk on the beach. the sand was quite soft, so it was hard work for an hour. We stopped at one location to watch these very small birds on the water edge running down to the water edge to feed on small somethings that the water washed in. It was quite humorous watching the birds running up and down the beach avoiding the waves.

When we cleared the soft beach section we had lunch at a place called Redgate Beach. The seabreeze had come in so the temperature had dropped a little. After another short beach walk we headed inland again with most of the walk being along the coastal ridge. the views were spectacular at times. This was a long walk through the bush, the low scrub was quite scratchy on the legs. At about 2.10pm we arrived at a place called Contos. From here it was another hour and half walk through four wheel drive tracks and some patches of Karri forest, quite a nice walk. We arrived at our pickup spot on the time we had planned at 4.00pm.