A selection of Great Walks in 2010

AUGUST 2010

Weekend  7-8 August:  Tree Planting Weekend with Essendon BWC Organiser: Sylvia McLean 54287364

Sun 15 August: Walk the Lerderderg 5. Simmons Reef to Balt Camp: 15.5 kms, Medium; Ed Butler. More detail closer to event.

SEPTEMBER 2010

Sun 19 Sept:Walk the Lerderderg 6. Balt Camp to Daylesford. 20 km, Medium and Celebration Lunch: Gib Wettenhall.

OCTOBER 2010

Sun 3 Oct: Scones @ Plaistow (NB: DAYLIGHT SAVING BEGINS) Alison Lanigan

Weekend  8-10 Oct: BWV Federation Walk - Otways Waverley BWC

Sun 31 Oct: Daylesford-Blowhole-Daylesford Circuit: Neil Campbell

NOVEMBER 2010

Sat 6 Nov: Essendon GDT Marathon: Bill Casey

Sun 21 Nov: Domino Trail Trentham: 10km, Easy: Sue Cooper

DECEMBER 2010

Sun 5 Dec: Short Family Walks, with  Gold Panning and Fossil Hunting: Tipperary Springs (on the outskirts of Daylesford): Barry Golding

2009 Goldfields Exploration
Series of Walks

In 2009 we conducted a series of one day walks covering three of the four GDT tracks (that we call the Goldfields Tracks) from Buninyong to Bendigo. You might like to try some of these sections yourself with friends, armed with the Wallaby Track, Dry Diggings Track and Leanganook Track maps to guide you. Enjoy!!
Click here to download the Goldfields Walk Program 2009 (PDF 351KB).

 

The Goldfields Track (Mt Buninyong/Ballarat to Bendigo) will be launched in 2010. 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 walked the Track in manageable sections during 2009. The distance is approximately 200 kms, undertaken by 13 separate day walks. 
 
Walk
Section
Distance
Rating


1
Exploring Buninyong village:
Mt Buninyong - Whitehorse Bridge to Sebastopol
 
13 kms
Easy
  

2
Crossing Ballarat’s hidden valleys & wetlands:
Whitehorse Bridge – Gong Reservoir
 
14 kms
Easy-Medium


3
Skirting cool highland lakes & rivers:
Gong Reservoir – St George’s Lake Creswick
 
16 kms
Easy-Medium


4
Conquering the Divide & discovering potato country: St George’s Lake – Mollongghip
 
23 kms
Medium


5
‘Falling’ off the Divide along railways & timber tramways: Mollongghip – Sailor’s Falls
 
23 kms
Medium

 
6
Exploring Daylesford’s lakes & valleys:
Sailor’s Falls – Bryce’s Flat
 
 
13 kms
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
Easy Medium
 
 
 
 
 
 

 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 

 
7
Meandering through Hepburn Springs’ valleys:
Bryce’s Flat – Chocolate Mill Daylesford
 

  
Medium


8
Experiencing the wild beauty of the upper Loddon forest: Chocolate Mill – Vaughan Springs
 
21 kms
Medium
 
 
9
Going for Gold along the water races into Castlemaine: Vaughan Springs – Castlemaine
 
19 kms
Medium
 
 
10
Exploring the historic Mt Alexander goldfields:
Castlemaine – Calder Highway
 
15 kms
Medium
 
 
11
Crossing Leanganook – the granite mountain:
Calder Highway – Sutton Grange
 
13 kms
Medium-Hard
 
 
12
Discovering historic water channels through ironbark country: Sutton Grange – Sandhurst Reservoir
 
22 kms
Easy-Medium
 
 
13
Reaching Bendigo’s golden edges:
Sandhurst Reservoir – Bendigo
 
 
 
13 kms
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
Easy
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 

 

 

 

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