Due to February fire activity, the Lerderderg Track at Daylesford remains CLOSED until further notice between Jubilee Lake and Leonards Hill Road.

A selection of Great Walks in 2009

Apart from the 'Goldfields Exploration Series' Walks in 2009 (details below) GDTA conducts a number of other walks and events. ALL events require you to book in via the person indicated, for further and final details.

 

Sat 23 May, Yankee Gully Blackwood, 14 kms M+ Ron James 5345 7539 or Colin Hancock 5330 1929    

 

Sunday 31, May Circuit Walk: East Wombat Forest 15kms E-M Richard Piesse 0448 572 867

 

Saturday 18 July, Members’ Dinner - NOTE CHANGE OF DATE Noelene Mason 5345 1260 

 

Sunday 30 August, Mt Alexander Circuit 13 kms M Richard Piesse 0448 572 867

 

Sunday 4 October, Scones @ Plaistow Alison Lanigan 5345 2958

 

Sunday 8 November, Wildflowers: Castlemaine Diggings National Heritage Park 12 kms E-M

Richard Piesse 0448 572 867

 

2009 Goldfields Exploration
Series of Walks

Click here to download the Goldfields Walk Program 2009 (PDF 351KB).

 

The Goldfields Track (Mt Buninyong/Ballarat to Bendigo) will be launched in 2009. The promotion of the Goldfields Track is a partnership initiative between Goldfields Tourism, Parks Victoria, People and Parks Foundation, Conservation Volunteers Australia and the Great Dividing Trail Association (GDTA).  To commemorate the launch of the Goldfields Track, the GDTA has arranged to walk the Track in manageable sections during 2009. The distance is approximately 200 kms, to be undertaken by 13 separate day walks. (The 22 May walk is an extra GDTA Walk, not part of the Goldfields Track Series: completed walks in italics).

 

Walk
Section
Distance
Rating
Date
Leader
1
Exploring Buninyong village:
Mt Buninyong - Whitehorse Bridge to Sebastopol
 
13 kms
Easy
Sunday 15 February 2009
Patrick Hope 5341 3711
2
Crossing Ballarat’s hidden valleys & wetlands:
Whitehorse Bridge – Gong Reservoir
 
14 kms
Easy-Medium
Sunday 8 March 2009
Neville Fraser 0418 558 278
3
Skirting cool highland lakes & rivers:
Gong Reservoir – St George’s Lake Creswick
 
16 kms
Easy-Medium
Sunday 29 March 2009
Alison Lanigan 5345 2958
4
Conquering the Divide & discovering potato country: St George’s Lake – Mollongghip
 
23 kms
Medium
Sunday 19 April 2009
Barry Golding 5345 6343
5
‘Falling’ off the Divide along railways & timber tramways: Mollongghip – Sailor’s Falls
 
23 kms
Medium
Sunday 3 May 2009

NOTE CHANGE: Led By Bill Casey: register via Pat Hope  5341 3711 or pathope@netconnect.com.au
6
Exploring Daylesford’s lakes & valleys:
Sailor’s Falls – Bryce’s Flat
 
[*Yankee Gully Walk: detail TBC
 
13 kms
 
 
 
 
 
TBC
 
Easy Medium
 
 
 
 
 
TBC
Sunday 17 May 2009
 
 
 
 
22 May 2009
Neil Campbell 9478 7995
 
 
 
 
Ron James 5345 7539]
 
7
Meandering through Hepburn Springs’ valleys:
Bryce’s Flat – Chocolate Mill Daylesford
 
GDTA MEMBERS DINNER 18 July (NOTE CHANGED DATE) Contact Noelene Mason 53451260
 
12 kms
Medium
Sunday 21 June 2009
Ed Butler 5348 3059
8
Experiencing the wild beauty of the upper Loddon forest: Chocolate Mill – Vaughan Springs
 
21 kms
Medium
Sunday 26 July 2009
Bill Casey 0407 347 319
9
Going for Gold along the water races into Castlemaine: Vaughan Springs – Castlemaine
 
19 kms
Medium
Sunday 16 August 2009
Ed Butler 5348 3059
10
Exploring the historic Mt Alexander goldfields:
Castlemaine – Calder Highway
 
15 kms
Medium
Sunday 13 September 2009
Neil Campbell 9478 7995
11
Crossing Leanganook – the granite mountain:
Calder Highway – Sutton Grange
 
13 kms
Medium-Hard
Sunday 27 September
2009
Richard Piesse 0448 572 867
12
Discovering historic water channels through ironbark country: Sutton Grange – Sandhurst Reservoir
 
22 kms
Easy-Medium
Sunday 18 October 2009
Gib Wettenhall 5334 5490
13
Reaching Bendigo’s golden edges:
Sandhurst Reservoir – Bendigo
 
 
Mt Franklin to Franklinford: Celebration Breakfast & Lunch  and Christmas Get Together
13 kms
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
12km
 
 
Easy
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
Easy
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
Sunday 29 November 2009
 
 
 
 
 
 Sat 5 Dec 2009
 
 
Barry Hunter 5449 3286
 
 
 
 
 
 
Barry Golding 53456342

 

 

 

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