Mackillop Drive Reserve, Baulkham Hills

 

Seven out of ten. A good medium sized park, with nice facilities and a few distinct spaces. And it's got a connecting bushy pathway to the enormous Crestwood Reserve, a few hundred metres away. More about that one soon.

Lockdown 2 exercise park #31: Roxborough Rose Garden

 
It's attached to the Alfred Henry Whaling Reserve in Baulkham Hills, and it's an even more interesting find. How do they keep things like this a secret? It's one of the biggest rose gardens in the region, I read, and yet I'd never heard of it. 

Not actually peak flowering season now, but it will look pretty good when it is!

Lockdown 2 exercise park #30: Alfred Henry Whaling Memorial Reserve

 

Nothing to do with whaling, the activity. It's named after a former Mayor, whose surname was Whaling. But it's a great little park. Not so little at all, in fact.

There's an attached rose garden, plus a huge aquatic centre, undergoing a major transformation at the moment.

 

 

 

We'll be back again sometime, to monitor its progress.

Lockdown 2 exercise park #29: Coolong Reserve

 

 

 

Baulkham Hills turns out to be a fertile ground for delightful and well hidden parks. We visited Coolong Reserve the other day, or at least the top half of it. We'll check out the lower parts later this week.

Covid countdown - the Platypus and Bandicoot Tracks

Today's exploration-cum-legal exercise session was in the Bidjigal Reserve bushland in the Baulkham Hills and West Pennant Hills area.

In particular, I surveyed the Platypus Track and the Burraga (bandicoot) Track. Both totally unknown to me  before today.




My movements were largely centred around Excelsior Creek, but there's a big and somewhat confusing network of tracks, and at one stage I was wandering upstream along Darling Mills Creek, which I've explored many times before, but failed to recognise for a while.

It was a terrific morning's exploration.

Covid countdown - Exercise park #27: George Thornton Reserve