Thursday 17 February 2022

Bob and Denise at the start of Snake Bay Track

Passing the first of new infrastructure for the South Coast Track

Exploring where the new track will go

A somewhat large tree to go under

Karen at Little Pebbly Beach

Leaving Little Pebby Beach

Morning Tea at the unnamed cove

Saunders case moth larvae out for a mid day stroll

Heading off from Clear Point

Photos courtesy of Donna, Karen and Peter

Batemans Bay Bushwalkers’ first walk for 2022 was on Thursday 17 February at Pebbly Beach. With the weather difficult to predict in February, a 7 km Easy/Medium track along the coast was chosen to take advantage of any sea breeze.

17 walkers turned up to walk the old track from Pebbly Beach north through Murramarang National Park along the coast. This area was burned in the fires, and much of the track infrastructure – wooden steps and wooden bridges have either burned completely away or been severely damaged. There are also several large trees down over the track which made it an interesting obstacle course.

There are 3 short side trips along the way – the first was Little Pebbly Beach, a small cove covered in pebbles. The next is a larger cove (unnamed) at which we stopped for a break and to explore the creek. We turned around here and retraced our steps back to the third side trip to Clear Point, which has views north to Pretty Beach and Snapper Point, and south to Point Upright and Grasshopper Island.

This particular track will form part of the new Murramarang South Coast Track, running from Bawley Point to Maloneys Beach. It has already been surveyed and marked by the track construction contractors, so we should see it cleared and repaired in the not-too-distant future.

The walk ended back at Pebbly Beach for lunch in one of the big picnic shelters.

Karen McL.