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Oceania » Australia » South Australia » Adelaide » Kapunda October 1st 2007

Introduction Today's walk was a new take on the Peters Hill walk described in George Driscoll's "50 real bush walks around Adelaide". The one that George describes as Walk number 1 in his book took ages when we last went in 2005- this is a modification that takes in a little bit more of the Heysen Trail, and we were able to complete in 3.5 hours. we also visited the town of Kapunda in particular map the minor giant sculpture of a Cornish miner, and the Kapunda mines, where we did a 1.5 km walk. How to get there... See the route map - from the GPO head to Gawler and then on to Kapunda. Travel 13 km beyond Kapunda through to Hamilton. After Hamilton we travelled a few more kilometres before turning left on Murray's ... read more
Dan and I at Kapunda
Desert Rose
Heading towards Peter's Hill

Oceania » Australia » South Australia » Adelaide » Kapunda August 7th 2005

Preamble- the walk plan This is walk number 1 in the '50 real bushwalks around Adelaide' by George Driscoll (5th ed). It is a brand new one to us though. Part of the excitment of our walks is when we go somewhere we have never been and 'discover' it for ourselves. This walk is 16 km north of Kapunda, about 1.5 hours North of Adelaide and takes in part of the Heysen trail. It goes over private land (Huppatz family) and there is a restored hut called Marschall Hut. Hope the weather holds out. Learn more about Kapunda at this Wiki and read a walker's description of the Heysen trail. What happened: Well there was lots of gums and cows - so it was a good exemplar of the Heysen trail url=http://www.angelfire.com/fol... read more
Cows
Through Heysen country
Dam




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