Blackburn Lake
January 9th, 2011 at 10:25Length: 8 km (Longer than in the book due to accidentally back tracking part of the path!)
Time taken: 2 hours (including breaks for pictures)
Grade: Easy
Climb: 35 metres
This was a surprisingly pretty and interesting walk considering it was partly down streets and along the back of houses. How we managed to prematurely end up back at the beginning of the walk and not realise until we saw the car is a mystery, but the mistake thankfully only added an extra km to the walk.
The first half of the walk is along a creek that backs onto houses, but it’s quite nice and was reasonably busy with walkers and joggers while we were there. The next part of the walk is crossing a main road and down a National Trust Classified street with some very interesting looking houses. I didn’t even know streets could be National Trust Classified! The last part of the walk was a circuit of Blackburn lake, which is surprisingly large and picturesque.
The walk was easy, but longer than the usual lake circuit walks in the book when combined with the streets and creek.
Map
The creek
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There were some interesting water fowl hanging out in the creek. You can see it standing on the concrete.
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This tree fell over the track, but instead of removing it the council has erected signs at both sides warning walkers and cyclists not to hit their heads!
A small lake within the creek
Another water fowl
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The National Trust Classified Street sign on Jeffery St
Blackburn Lake
One of the platforms over the lake
Another view of the lake