Brian led 15 Batemans Bay Bushwalkers on what might be considered one of the best walks our club offers each year. The 11km walk combines sections of a number of walks in the Murramarang NP – Durras area, starting at Wasp Head and ending at North Head.
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The walk includes sections along existing tracks, retired tracks no longer maintained by the Park Service, some bush bashing and beach walks. As Brian says, “you can’t get lost as long as you keep the ocean on your left”.
The terrain is undulating, nothing too steep or too flat, so the walkers had their interest kept for what might come next. The walk passes through a wide variety of vegetation types from tall stands of spotted gums with an understorey of Burrawangs to areas on the cliff tops with stunted spotted gums surviving the strong coastal winds.
The track involved forest trekking, to cliff tops with magnificent views of the beaches, down onto the sands for brief strolls along the beaches before heading back into the forests. Brian seemed to know when to take the walkers to a lookout so that the wildlife could make its appearance as if they were paid entertainers.
There was a pod of dolphins, two sea eagles soaring directly overhead, the mandatory Durras kangaroos on the beach and pods of whales heading north, some of which put on displays for us.