This walk leaves from the Bridgewater Jetty and follows the walking trail downstream on the Derwent River to the entrance of the Jordan River returning to the Jetty.
From there Bob has added on an extra link which involves crossing the overpass through Bridgewater and walking the track that follows the railway line to Boyer.
With a forecast for some rain and a cool breeze we set off down the river.
Looking downriver towards Mt Direction.
Mt Wellington covered in snow.
A flight of both pied and little black commorants having a rest from fishing.
Looking across the river towards Granton.
A panorama of the river reflections.
More reflections.
Looking upriver towards Mt Dromedary. There was a discussion among some of the group of about climbing it from this side.
The reed beds at the outflow of the Jordan River.
And the sun appeared for morning tea with another view of Mt Wellington.
On starting back up the river the wind picked up.
One can tell from the depth of the grasslands alongside the river bank that we have been experiencing very wet weather lately.
Spring has sprung and the new cygnets were having a day out on the river with mum and dad.
We have now left the river and are heading towards civilisation.
Bob has taken off over the the pedestrian bridge at speed and we were worried he was heading to Macca's for lunch.
But no then it looked like it might be Rooster Chicken.
Fortunately we kept walking until we arrived at the trail that follows the river next to the Boyer Railway line.
This was a much more scenic lunch than our initial thoughts.
A closer look at Mr Dromedary.
Looking down river past the Bridgewater Bridge towards Mt Direction.
We walked as far as where the track crossed the railway line then turned around and were greeted by this view.
Surprise, surprise there are trains on the railway line.
The sun came out for the last part of our walk.
This walk turned out to be a very pleasant stroll with plenty of views to look at along the way.
The interesting part was that the highest point was only about 20 meters and that occurred when we twice used the pedestrian bridge across the Midlands Highway.
15 walkers managed just on 16kms in 4.5 hours.
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