Our scheduled walk for today was going to be 'The Old Hobartian Circuit' but as the weather forecast for Mt Wellington was not good the walk was changed to Huntingfield Reserve.
This photo taken today looking towards the mountain shows that the right decision was made.
Under heavy skies 9 intrepid walkers commenced the walk from the car park and set off along the Coffee Creek Fire Trail. The track was clearly showing evidence of the wet weather.
Looking across the North West Bay golf course - note the grey skies threatening rain.
Our route follows a number of fire trails until we reach the boundary of Huntingfield Riding Club and the McVilly Fire Trail where we have morning tea.
After morning tea we left the bigger fire trail and walked along some of the smaller tracks till we reached the high point of the walk at Brightwater Road. (No shortage of decals on the post - were they purchased in bulk at a discount store??)
At Brightwater Road (one of the main entrances to the reserve from this direction) we found this helpful sign!! While some were diligently studying our route others had more important things to discuss.
We then walked down the Boundary Track to the Huntingfield Riding Club where we had lunch. Along the way we passed this disused satellite dish.
Never one to disappoint - Chis spotted these orchids (those with eagle eyes will be able to spot the orange flowers in the center right of the photo!!)
After lunch we headed of towards the Howden Fire Trail. Along the way these were some of the equestrian obstacles we passed .. despite lots of encouragement no one would jump over them.
Another orchid - well done Chris.
We walked approx 10kms in 3.5 hours. During lunch there was a spirited discussion regarding the need for accuracy and precision .. for those that require this we walked 9.887kms in 3hrs 19min 44 sec.
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