Saturday 20 September, 2025
Photos courtesy of Bruce, Rob and Donna G. Walk Report by Walk Leader Bruce
This was Bruce’s first walk leading and 24 people turned out on a pretty good day for a walk billed as ‘new’, albeit very similar to one last done by the club about 5 years ago.
We started at the South Pacific Heathland Reserve which was blooming with abundant flannel flowers, Jervis Bay grevilleas, mountain devil, wedding bush, various peas, smoke bush (Conospermum) and many more. I have it on good authority (the bloke who literally wrote the book on wildflowers of the Ulladulla area) that the Waratahs are not flowering much at that time of the year but, thanks to Robs eagle eye, we did see one.
From the Heathland Reserve we descended some steps and had a short walk along Rennies Beach and then back up to Warden Head and the newly renovated Coomee Nulunga Cultural Walk. This took us through Coastal Banksia forest and wet heath and on to numerous viewpoints overlooking spectacular beaches, rock platforms, vistas south towards Bawley Point and north to Jervis Bay, and of course, whales. We then had a brief stop at the lighthouse and looped back through Bangalay forest. Return was via the SPHR following the route of the Old Coast Road, which was built in the 1830s for wagon deliveries to the area. The walk probably took a bit longer than planned with so many stops and walkers (and some minor wrong turns courtesy of novice leader) but seemed to be enjoyed by all.