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SEGMENT 4 SUSPENSION BRIDGE to CREMORNE JUNCTION

Start Main Route L'Estrange outdid the great Blondin by crossing on a 433 metre tight Two short blocks bring you to Prospect Avenue (and there is one at its The walk begins at the Suspension BridgeA (see Segment 3 for rope suspended 105 metres above the water. Below, thousands of end), turn into it and then left immediately into Langley Avenue. background) and meanders along past the interestingly sited and paying customers cheered from ferries. Now return slightly back architecturally varied houses of The Boulevard and Rowlinson Parade. uphill, turning left beyond the houses to take the bushwalk across and This is almost the end. At the next intersection, a left turn at Gerard At Vernon Street drop down via Brothers Avenue for a visit to Tunks then downhill over a canal bridge to Primrose Park. Street followed by a right at Macpherson brings you within a hundred Park. The park’s name recognises William Tunks, St Leonards Mayor metres of Cremorne Junction at Military Road and at the start of from 1867 until his death in 1883 and a conservationist greatly In the nineteenth century, the Primrose Park area was a recognised Segment 5. concerned about creating public reserves. The Park was a construction beauty spot with a large inlet fed by the once impressive Willoughby centre for the recently completed Northside Storage Tunnel at Lane Falls, which now trickle from below Grafton Street. However, Primrose Cove and Scott’s Creek to North Head which is designed to prevent Park’s current sweet-smelling name notwithstanding, the site was the Start Return Route wet weather sewage overflowing into the Harbour. Folly Point sewage treatment plant D from 1892 to 1926. Most of To return to the Suspension Bridge, walk back to the Langley/Gerard its large flat area was filled with trickling filter beds, which in intersection, turn left into Gerard Lane which soon hooks left and runs Leave Tunks Park, climb Brothers Avenue past the playground and operation looked rather like a vegetable farm with rows of sprinklers - downhill to Benelong Road. Turn right here, right again at Reynolds turn left into Vernon Street at the ‘No Entry’ sign. Water glimpses and but did not smell like one. There was also a pump house with a tall Street and then left into Levick Street. Cross the intersection at then houses make this a pleasant if steady climb. Continue left into chimney, settling and sludge tanks, a small tramway and canals. Levick’s end to the bush path which leads down in sometimes steep Significant elements remain, the original covered settling tanks now Cowdroy Avenue and up to Cammeray Road. At this junction, note the steps to Brightmore Reserve with its interesting driver training track. sporting tennis courts. Explore the area now if you wish, or on the tree B in the road centre and its sad story. Barcroft Boake, the 26 Primrose Park is across Wonga Road/Young Street. Cross to it and return leg. By 1926 population growth had overwhelmed the system year-old surveyor son of a Milsons Point photographer, was a highly turn left, walking through the park to the old plant buildings and the and it was closed and replaced by the ocean outfall system. In place regarded bush poet whose best-known poem is Out Where the Dead tennis courts atop them. Walk around the left (southern) edge of the of the sewage farm, Primrose Park was dedicated in 1930, and Men Lie. Out of work in the economic depression of 1892 and further courts to pick up a zigzag track behind them that leads up to Grafton named after the then Mayor of North Sydney. It is now a thriving depressed by a death in the family and the failure of his father’s Street and a glimpse of Willoughby Falls G . community arts and craft centre. business, he left Milsons Point for a walk in the dense bushland of the Cammeray peninsula, a favourite spot. Eight days later he was found Take a right along Grafton Street and then left along Cammeray Road. Cross the Park waterfront to one-way Wonga Road, and walking along by workmen. He had hanged himself from the gum tree with his This passes between Cammeray Park and Golf Course and leafy to the left, climb it almost to Lodge Road to where the road widens stockwhip. The tree survived him by almost a century but had to be Green Park, to Amherst Street. At Bellevue Street, turn right to follow and take the small loop left near the 25kph sign to the 1879 mansion this quieter alternative to Miller Street to its end past Cammeray Public replaced in recent years. E Warringah Lodge , the first house built in the area. Further uphill School and the wooden cottages opposite. At the end is the interesting turn left into Ryries Parade, noting the fern-filled waterfall in the first converted 1915 electricity substation H (The North Shore’s first) Continue downhill to Folly Point, a delightful spot for a break. Older dip. At Wyong Road, the North Sydney Boundary is met again but look maps often show this as Cammeray Point with Folly Point being at designed to stylistically complement the Suspension Bridge which sits across the street to the house Shellbank before heading uphill to the attractively below. Take the left-hand steps down to Pine Street and Primrose Park. Various unsubstantiated reasons are offered for the right and into Macpherson Street. curious name but it could well have been named by Captain Charles then cross to North Avenue where a path leads to the Suspension Bridge A . McKinnon, commander of the explosives hulks moored near Seaforth The quiet street of largely Federation houses is swamped by traffic before the Bantry Bay Depot was constructed. Look left across Long once the Ourimbah Road lights are reached, so turn right into little Bay to Salt Pan Creek where the skeleton of a shipwreck C protrudes Davidson Parade and follow it around to the Bariston Avenue walkway Written and researched by the Walking Volunteers. For further North from the water below Northbridge Golf Course. A number of boats leading to Fifth Avenue and wonderful Middle Harbour views from Sydney and regional walking materials go the Customer Service were scuttled in this bay including the Italia (1906) and the Coraki Brothers Memorial Park F before retracing your steps and Centre, Stanton Library, or www.northsydney.nsw.gov.au click (1946). To your right is Willoughby Bay. In April 1877 there was only continuing along Fifth Avenue to Montague Road and back to ‘recreation’ and www.planning.nsw.gov.au/harbour click ‘Walking bushland here and it was here that Melbourne born showman, Henri Macpherson Street. Sydney Harbour’. Photographs Graham Spindler.