Heysen trail - Greenock


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February 26th 2006
Published: March 18th 2006
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In late February we walked through a part of the Barossa Valley near Greenock. This is NOT a walk that I would recommend anyone do during summer.

The day was lovely, the scenery was fabulous (rolling valleys with vines heavily laden with grapes) - but the serenity was destroyed by the bird scarers. Usually it is air rifles that are used to frighten off the crows, but near Greenock they use the new audio devices- playing loud obnoxious noises constantly to scare the birds away from the fruit. Very, very painful indeed.

From the bridge on the Eastern side of Greenock we headed North along the Heysen trail until the edge of the valley (this is where the noise was at its worse). Then we turned left down a dirt road to the highway. We walked along the highway (awful because of the traffic) towards Greenock until we got to the creek. We followed the creek to the bridge where we started.

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