A week or so ago, Bob and I walked up to the Blackburn Lake Sanctuary to walk around the small lake there. Today, we visited a different part of the same ecosystem, a bushland corridor that runs east to west along Gardiners Creek in the Blackburn community of the city of Whitehorse. We walked the Blackburn Creeklands pathway that runs through two parks between the very busy Middleborough and Blackburn Roads.
It was a lovely short walk which allows you to feel you’ve escaped the traffic and gotten back into nature.
we passed a guy with his dog off lead. Wherever we go, we always find people for whom the rules don’t seem to apply.
will be the bark-stripping trees (our term) and the chatty birds.
in establishing the Blackburn Creeklands in 1983.
where we always seemed to be surrounded by greenery.
After we reached Blackburn Road, we headed back towards the house. On the way, we stumbled on a civic guide map showing us where we are situated in the larger community as well as a point of interest.
“Our” current house would be off the bottom left part of the map.
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