Peter Murell - 6 October 2026

Because the weather forecast for today was for rain most of the morning , it was decided to change the walk to Peter Murrell reserve.

 12 walkers set off from the Burwood Road entrance to the reserve - note that everyone had wet weather gear on.

 Lyn who is leading the walk assures us that she has mapped out a course that will take us all over the reserve.

Continuing along the Middle fire trail and then the Eastern fire trail  

 

 This plant is either the Pale Currant Bush (leptomeria drupacea) or the White Sour Bush (choretrum candollei) both are named because of their intensely tart little berries

 

Lyn discussing today's route with the group

 

Practicing for Halloween?  Fortunately it was only a minor cut on her wrist.

 Walking past Penrhyn Pond

 Overflow from the dam into Coffee Creek

 This puddle contained an interesting number of bird and animal tracks

 

The state government is in the process of developing this major housing initiative on a 67 hectare site near Kingston with roughly 460 residential lots. The first release of stage 1 lots has just commenced. 

 

Looking across the golf course towards North West Bay there is a rainbow very close to the ground.  While not as visible in the photo it was quite obvious with the naked eye.

 And its morning tea time in the bright sunshine

 

We continue with the walk 

 

Today we covered just over 12kms in mostly good weather - there were some showers but nothing that worried our hardy walkers.

 

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Clark Cliffs - 29 September 2026

12 walkers came along for today's walk with a forecast for a sunny day of about 22 degrees with little or no wind .. another perfect day for hiking. 

The walk didn't start till about 11:15 due to delays caused by roadworks and the closing of the Dunalley Bridge for a passing boat.

Getting ready to begin

 We will of course take the designated hard walk which is a loop passing Clark Cliffs 

The start of  hike follows "Fire Tower Road"

 

This old tree stump almost looks like a dinosaur waiting to attack Hadyn!

 Shortly after we reach Norfolk Bay Lookout and decide it's a good place for morning tea

 

Looking towards Norfolk Bay

 

Morning tea over we soon leave the road and take the trail to Clark Cliffs.  The track  quickly becomes more difficult - fallen trees, lots of obstacles and very windy.

This photo shows some of the debris caused by fallen trees

 

Some of the larger obstacles we passed

 

This must have been a decent size tree at one time

We reach Musk Forrest and stop for a look 

After admiring the view we leave Musk forest and head off to Clark Cliffs and its lunch time

 

Lunch over there is a short flat section of dry bush before we begin the steep decent back to the cars.  

 

 

Near the end of the track a fallen tree forces us to go off the track and  through a section of cutting grass

On the descent we went through some lovely green areas filled with moss, ferns and lichens

 

Here is a selection of flora we passed today

 

This interesting walk although fairly short (about 8kms) covers a wide variety of flora as it loops around the forest.  It can be seen on the elevation profile that there is a steady climb to Clark Cliffs and then a very steep descent back to the cars.

 

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