63 Kalkari and Birrawanna Track

Kalkari and the Birrawanna Track to Bobbin Head. 

After the inevitable car shuffle for a non circuit walk we first visited Kalkari Visitor Centre.  A fire clearly raged through the area in recent times.   The entire place was dismal, starkly lifeless, dry, brown crackly.   No wallabies, roos, python to be seen nor even those delightful little turtles once so prolific in the ponds.   Even the bird life was dismal save for one mynah, a brush turkey and one pied magpie.Dreary me.  One brief but rather exciting encounter though was to spy an enormous goanna which did not wish to be seen rapidly disappearing into the undergrowth.  

THE BIRRAWANNA TRACK has three routes down to Bobbin Head from Kalkari. We chose one which took approximately 50 minutes to descend.   The excellent track is steep in parts, happily down hill all the way which accounts for the Aboriginal name Birrawanna meaning ‘to descend':  One photo  shows something of the descent to the water - steep! 

A million cicadas announced their presence with deafening purpose.  It was so  good to have a really worthwhile bush walk, to feel the breeze through the trees, to see  Angopha, Scribbly gums, casuarina forest and of course heath and fern gullies.

The inevitable iced coffees and coffee (milk on the side) were served to us in the Galley Cafe on the marina.