Thursday 18 August 2022

Karen enjoying the track

The lake track was mostly above water level

Except in a few low lying spots

Looks more like a bayou

Karen, Rob, Donna and Simeon

Simeon and Rob at the Discovery Trail

And encountering a small obstacle

Durras Lake closed to the sea

Photos courtesy of Karen, Donna and Glenn

The purpose of today’s excursion was to walk the entire length of Durras Lake. The lake track starts on Mt Agony Road and joins the lake at its northern extremity. It then follows the lake all the way to where it meets the sea. Although at the moment, it doesn’t meet the sea and consequently the lake is overflowing its banks. The track was under water in a couple of spots, but not deep enough to worry our walkers.

We made a quick detour to explore the Discovery Trail located halfway along the walk. Judging from the amount of cleared timber, National Parks have spent a lot of time trying to keep the trail free of obstacles, but we still had to detour around a couple of fallen trees, and there is one giant spotted gum across the track which looks way too big to be removed. We found the location of the old observation tower and axe logged tree, which is now a pile of burned debris and fallen logs.

The walk ended at North Durras Beach where we paused for lunch and watched a pod of dolphins floating around near the shore.

Karen