The walk today was following Charles Darwin"s walk around the Eastern Shore of the Derwent River when he visited Hobart, Van Diemen's Land (now Tasmania) between 5 -17 February 1836 while circumnavigating the world in the "Beagle".
His walk would have experienced a totally different environment to our fairly suburban stroll although there would have been areas of the bush and foreshore he may have recognized.
Chris providing a briefing to the group before departure.
A good start with a hill at the beginning to get us all warmed up.
Entering Waverley Park.
A fine set of steps take us nearly to the top.
The track builders providing examples of their construction skills.
The area at the top of Waverley Park was once a quarry providing sandstone for some of Hobart's older buildings.
This quarry face appears to have now been utilised as a meeting place.
The provision of this fine stone wall was much appreciated by the group for their morning tea seating.
Looking North across towards the Derwent and Glenorchy.
On the top of the hill is a radio/wireless base which has been decorated by the local graffiti artists.
And it looked as though maybe we had lost him for the rest of the day.
Other were also interested.
Spread out along Howrah Beach.
This headland separates Howrah Beach and Bellerive Beach and provided a pleasant spot for lunch.
View at low tide across the river Sandy Bay and the Casino.
One of the local Pied Cormorants trying to sun itself on a somewhat cloudy day.
Another couple of cormorants perched on some old boat davits.
Looking back along Howrah Beach.
Walking along Bellerive Beach.
Here the group split between the high road around Bellerive Bluff and a rock hop around the Bluff foreshore at what was a very low tide.
A retaining wall holding back the Bluff from falling into the river.
The rest of the group trying to encourage us to clamber back up to where they were on the track.
We believe it was somewhere near here that Darwin commented about the fossils in the rock.
Back on the track and heading to the cars.
It was a busy day for our shipping industry.
Our group of 25 walkers walked 11.3 kms and climbed 160m over 3.5 hours.
Thanks to Chris for leading an interesting walk.
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