Last Saturday, in beautiful weather, our walks coordinator, Anna Burley, took us on another excellent walk.
We enjoyed the glorious trees including River Red Gum, Manna Gum, Blackwood Wattle and Silver Wattle as well as some of the old European trees that have been retained as part of the park. The work of the Friends of the Yarra Flats Park was evident and we enjoyed the shared path with a number of people out to exercise.
The park contains seven of the boards that make up the Heidelberg Artist’s Trail and we enjoyed Anna’s enthusiastic introduction to these representations of what the area looked like some time ago.
The walk then changed as we left the park to walk along the Eagelemont section of The Boulevard enjoying the interesting houses and their lovely gardens. We moved up into Glenard Estate where Anna told us about Walter Burley Griffin and Peter Keam and the development of the area. We looked at some of the original houses, and a few early, significant trees and the Glenard Farm Homestead. The group photo was taken at the plaque acknowledging the work of Walter Burley Griffin.
We then headed back down to the River Flats and back to our cars and back to Anna’s for a most delicious morning tea.
Another excellent walk, informative and enjoyable, and amazing weather, all organised by Anna! Looking forward to the next adventure!
