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A 45km network of walks in six segments circling NorthSydney via parks, Aboriginal sites, waterfront, bushlandand urban streetscapes encompassing features of bothnatural and architectural heritage.
Middle Harbour from Brothers Memorial Reserve
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Suspension Bridge Warringah Lodge
Tree Brothers Memorial Park
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Start Main RouteThe walk begins at the Suspension Bridge (see Segment 3 forbackground) and meanders along past the interestingly sited andarchitecturally varied houses of The Boulevard and Rowlinson Parade.At Vernon Street drop down via Brothers Avenue for a visit to TunksPark. The park’s name recognises William Tunks, St Leonards Mayorfrom 1867 until his death in 1883 and a conservationist greatlyconcerned about creating public reserves. The Park was a constructioncentre for the recently completed Northside Storage Tunnel at LaneCove and Scott’s Creek to North Head which is designed to preventwet weather sewage overflowing into the Harbour.
Leave Tunks Park, climb Brothers Avenue past the playground andturn left into Vernon Street at the ‘No Entry’ sign. Water glimpses andthen houses make this a pleasant if steady climb. Continue left intoCowdroy Avenue and up to Cammeray Road. At this junction, note thetree in the road centre and its sad story. Barcroft Boake, the 26year-old surveyor son of a Milsons Point photographer, was a highlyregarded bush poet whose best-known poem is Out Where the DeadMen Lie. Out of work in the economic depression of 1892 and furtherdepressed by a death in the family and the failure of his father’sbusiness, he left Milsons Point for a walk in the dense bushland of theCammeray peninsula, a favourite spot. Eight days later he was foundby workmen. He had hanged himself from the gum tree with hisstockwhip. The tree survived him by almost a century but had to bereplaced in recent years.
Continue downhill to Folly Point, a delightful spot for a break. Oldermaps often show this as Cammeray Point with Folly Point being atPrimrose Park. Various unsubstantiated reasons are offered for thecurious name but it could well have been named by Captain CharlesMcKinnon, commander of the explosives hulks moored near Seaforthbefore the Bantry Bay Depot was constructed. Look left across LongBay to Salt Pan Creek where the skeleton of a shipwreck protrudesfrom the water below Northbridge Golf Course. A number of boatswere scuttled in this bay including the Italia (1906) and the Coraki(1946). To your right is Willoughby Bay. In April 1877 there was onlybushland here and it was here that Melbourne born showman, Henri
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L'Estrange outdid the great Blondin by crossing on a 433 metre tightrope suspended 105 metres above the water. Below, thousands ofpaying customers cheered from ferries. Now return slightly backuphill, turning left beyond the houses to take the bushwalk across andthen downhill over a canal bridge to Primrose Park.
In the nineteenth century, the Primrose Park area was a recognisedbeauty spot with a large inlet fed by the once impressive WilloughbyFalls, which now trickle from below Grafton Street. However, PrimrosePark’s current sweet-smelling name notwithstanding, the site was theFolly Point sewage treatment plant from 1892 to 1926. Most ofits large flat area was filled with trickling filter beds, which inoperation looked rather like a vegetable farm with rows of sprinklers -but did not smell like one. There was also a pump house with a tallchimney, settling and sludge tanks, a small tramway and canals.Significant elements remain, the original covered settling tanks nowsporting tennis courts. Explore the area now if you wish, or on thereturn leg. By 1926 population growth had overwhelmed the systemand it was closed and replaced by the ocean outfall system. In placeof the sewage farm, Primrose Park was dedicated in 1930, andnamed after the then Mayor of North Sydney. It is now a thrivingcommunity arts and craft centre.
Cross the Park waterfront to one-way Wonga Road, and walking alongto the left, climb it almost to Lodge Road to where the road widensand take the small loop left near the 25kph sign to the 1879 mansionWarringah Lodge , the first house built in the area. Further uphillturn left into Ryries Parade, noting the fern-filled waterfall in the firstdip. At Wyong Road, the North Sydney Boundary is met again but lookacross the street to the house Shellbank before heading uphill to theright and into Macpherson Street.
The quiet street of largely Federation houses is swamped by trafficonce the Ourimbah Road lights are reached, so turn right into littleDavidson Parade and follow it around to the Bariston Avenue walkwayleading to Fifth Avenue and wonderful Middle Harbour views fromBrothers Memorial Park before retracing your steps andcontinuing along Fifth Avenue to Montague Road and back toMacpherson Street.
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Two short blocks bring you to Prospect Avenue (and there is one at itsend), turn into it and then left immediately into Langley Avenue.
This is almost the end. At the next intersection, a left turn at GerardStreet followed by a right at Macpherson brings you within a hundredmetres of Cremorne Junction at Military Road and at the start ofSegment 5.
Start Return RouteTo return to the Suspension Bridge, walk back to the Langley/Gerardintersection, turn left into Gerard Lane which soon hooks left and runsdownhill to Benelong Road. Turn right here, right again at ReynoldsStreet and then left into Levick Street. Cross the intersection atLevick’s end to the bush path which leads down in sometimes steepsteps to Brightmore Reserve with its interesting driver training track.Primrose Park is across Wonga Road/Young Street. Cross to it andturn left, walking through the park to the old plant buildings and thetennis courts atop them. Walk around the left (southern) edge of thecourts to pick up a zigzag track behind them that leads up to GraftonStreet and a glimpse of Willoughby Falls .
Take a right along Grafton Street and then left along Cammeray Road.This passes between Cammeray Park and Golf Course and leafyGreen Park, to Amherst Street. At Bellevue Street, turn right to followthis quieter alternative to Miller Street to its end past Cammeray PublicSchool and the wooden cottages opposite. At the end is the interestingconverted 1915 electricity substation (The North Shore’s first)designed to stylistically complement the Suspension Bridge which sitsattractively below. Take the left-hand steps down to Pine Street andthen cross to North Avenue where a path leads to the SuspensionBridge .
Written and researched by the Walking Volunteers. For further NorthSydney and regional walking materials go the Customer ServiceCentre, Stanton Library, or www.northsydney.nsw.gov.au click‘recreation’ and www.planning.nsw.gov.au/harbour click ‘WalkingSydney Harbour’. Photographs Graham Spindler.
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