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Twenty Bushwalks in the Mount Alexander Region
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Responding to Country
Category Archives: Walks
FOBIF walk 16 October 2022
This is a relatively short walk (less than 6 km) but it is off track and conditions vary. In places the ground is hard, rocky and quite uneven. There are also loose rocks, sticks, fallen branches and tussocks. The undergrowth … Continue reading
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Slime moulds, orchids, wattles…
The biggest group of the year fronted grey skies and damp forecasts for FOBIF’s September walk in the Muckleford Nature Conservation Reserve yesterday. There was no lounging around in the sun, but walkers were rewarded with an experience of this … Continue reading
Walk on Sunday, 18 September
This Sunday’s 5 km walk will be in the Muckleford Forest. The walk will be leisurely with plenty of time to look at wildflowers including the many orchids that will be flowering now. We will be meeting at the Community … Continue reading
A stroll through the Metcalfe NCR
Good numbers rocked up for FOBIF’s August walk through the Metalfe Nature Conservation Reserve yesterday. This small reserve features beautiful open valleys of grassy woodland, the understorey dominated by Wallaby Grass. The reserve, unusually for this region, carries no Stringybarks, … Continue reading
Next Sunday’s walk, 21 August
Next Sunday’s walk led by Barb Guerin and Lionel Jenkins will be in the Metcalfe Nature Reserve. This is about 20 km east of Castlemaine. The walk will be approximately 7 km. If you would prefer to join the group … Continue reading
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Two FOBIF walks next Sunday (July 17)
Short walk led by Frances Cincotta We are going to park at the junction of Upper Kangaroo Creek Track and Lower Kangaroo Creek Track and will do a 5 km loop in which we will see Common Heath and Common … Continue reading
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Fabulous fungi walk
Last Sunday a good sized group was led on a lovely circuit walk around the Fryers Ridge bush by local Christine Henderson. There was a mix of tracks, trackless and even some private property (with permission ). The bush looked … Continue reading
FOBIF walk, 19 June 2022
Sunday’s walk starts on the Taradale-Fryerstown Road, at a parking spot near the crossing of Kangaroo Creek. We’ll make our way off track through private land up a rising ridge, leading to the Fryers Ridge Road. A couple of kilometres … Continue reading
Walkers ascend Mount Alexander
In perfect Autumn weather seventeen people joined in the second FOBIF walk for the year last Sunday. The loop route on Mount Alexander involved some hard sections including a solid climb from Forest Creek up to the Goldfields Track. Views … Continue reading
Dog Rocks Circuit – April 17 2022
West Side Story This walk is completely different to last year’s walk and is both shorter and easier. However there is a reasonably solid climb from Forest Creek up to the Goldfields Track, all of it off track. Bring plenty … Continue reading
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