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N2 Fauna, Foals and Fruit.Indd Suitable for Active Families Seniors & Strollers Pleasure Walkers d R ek d R m e u J ping Cr e t B y r Super Striders d u Yarra n Warrandyte Rd St a s r h Y r Rd y a a Circuit d r P Fitzsimons La a r a d W - a r e k R d t Porter St Parker St R o s R k e d o d Seating (Limited) Templestowe Rd e m w e r o Reynolds Rd Harris Gully Rd g C n H d Rd Tindals i Dogs Welcome R s R n n o s Knees Rd (Included off-lead r Stin Rd Manning e d tons d R Thompsons Rd ham R King St n e Bullee Williamsons Rd yt area) A nd ra d George St r Eastern Fwy a Springvale Rd Ayr St W Trail Type Natural Heritage Blackburn Rd Tram Rd High St ld Doncaster Rd O with Historic Walk Overview Mitcham Rd Places and The Mullum Mullum Trail is an important Elgar Rd Points of Interest wildlife corridor that follows the creek and Eastern Fwy Park Rd connects to the Main Yarra Trail. The walk alternates between small narrow bush tracks to sealed paths. It is an easy walk Location Public Transport to the west of the creek where you will Starts and fi nishes at Mullum Mullum Metlink: t 131 638 also fi nd picnic tables and toilets. Fauna, Foals & Fruit Manningham City Council Trail, Tindals Road, Donvale. www.metlinkmelbourne.com.au 699 Doncaster Road Time Ventura Buses: t 9488 2100 Melway Reference Mullum Mullum Creek to Doncaster Victoria 3108 1+ hr www.venturabus.com.au 34 J9 t 03 9840 9333 f 03 9848 3110 Distance White’s Orchard Walk Parking e [email protected] 3.2 kms www.manningham.vic.gov.au Mullum Mullum Trail, Tindals Road, Diffi culty Donvale. This brochure is printed on Australian made, Moderate 100 per cent recycled Tudor RP carbon neutral paper which has helped reduce global greenhouse Accessibility gas emissions by more than 110kgs CO2-e. Unsuitable This picturesque walk takes you through a striking Manna Gum forest that abounds with charm. This important natural ecosystem borders the Mullum Mullum Creek and is home to kangaroos, wombats, echidnas, possums and even koalas and platypuses. Plenty of parrots can be heard and in summer endangered orchids and herbaceous fl owering plants bloom amongst the ferns Facilities Be Prepared Additional Walks Wheelchair Access Toilets, picnic shelter, barbecue, Sun protection recommended There are 20 walks in the series to We have developed three walks and wattles. Remnant fruit trees drinking fountain. Carry water. choose from. If you liked this walk, specifi cally for wheelchairs. Look for are reminders of our orchard you might like the ones listed below: A Wheel Pleasure pamphlet. Hazards Days of total fi re ban All Manna of Gums heritage and if you walk on a Beware of snakes in summer Check the fi re risk warning before Currawong Bush Park to Saturday you will see horses Track prone to fl ooding in places embarking on this walk: Mullum Mullum Creek Walk www.cfa.vic.gov.au being taken through their paces Muddy and slippery in places. 100% Special at the horse jumping arenas. The 100 Acres Walk. Begin at the Mullum Mullum Linear Local pony clubs use the practice Parking (incl. disabled parking) Park carpark. The trail takes you arenas here. You will see them most straight into a dense eucalypt forest weekends taking horses through their Public toilets where the scent of eucalyptus fi lls paces. Not so long ago Donvale was the air — especially after rain. a remote, almost rural area of Picnic area Melbourne and horse riding was a Reynolds Rd Many of the surrounding eucalypts favourite local activity. Horse riders Barbecue are Manna Gums — Eucalyptus viminalis. forged many of the connecting tracks These are easily recognisable by their Donvale Pony Club to the main Mullum Mullum Trail. smooth white trunks that become & Adult Riding Club Keep to this side of Reynolds Road exposed as the bark peels off in long and take the bridge across the ribbons. They are native to the riparian Mullum Mullum Creek to Mullum environments of the Mullum Mullum Mullum Reserve sporting precinct. Creek and Yarra River. There is a picnic shelter here where Mullum Mullum Reserve sporting you can rest and share a snack when precinct offers tennis courts, a hockey Springvale Rd you return from your walk. fi eld and lawn bowls. There is a picnic shelter, barebecue and toilets. This is You will head up hill slightly following Mullum Mullum a nice spot to rest, kick a ball or run Bucks the contours of the hill. Scan the treetops Reserve Flat the dog. for koalas. Manna Gums are a favoured Follow the path until it brings you back food source for these nocturnal natives. to the creek’s edge. The drier hillside is dominated by Red Box, Eucalyptus polyanthemos that Manna Gums provide important is easily identifi ed by its fi nely textured habitat for several of our tree-dwelling fi brous bark and oval shaped leaves. natives such as gliders, possums and At the fork in the path take the smaller parrots. Hollows form where branches P a gravel track to your right. The sealed path drop. Hollows can take years to form rk l an on the left is part of your return journey. so prime habitat hollows are hotly ds Cl contested. Council will purposely leave An elevated boardwalk keeps your dead trees to ensure enough hollows feet dry as you cross a small tributary for everyone. and marshy groundcover. Here there Sugar gliders also dine on the sugary are ferns and daisies competing for J sap produced by the Manna Gums. ole light and space. In winter this section n Ct is vibrant with yellow wattle along with The large hillside school is now a population of introduced iris that has Carey Baptist Grammar School but possibly spread due to regular fl ooding. was originally built in the early seventies Newlands Cres Era Ct as one of Melbourne’s fi rst ‘alternative The open space to your right was education’ schools. The school was the site of White’s Orchard. Orchards called ERA and was surrounded Carey Baptist were planted throughout Doncaster, Grammar School by six forested hectares bordered by Templestowe and Donvale supplying orchards, the creek and a dirt, dead- Melbourne with the bulk of its fresh fruit end track called Springvale Road. particularly apples, pears and stone Hillcrest Ct The open space before you was their fruits. Those days are long gone, but oval — complete with resident trees. Donvale several trees still remain and bear fruit Era Court was named after the school. Christian in season. College After you re-cross the Mullum Mullum One of Manningham’s surviving heritage Springvale Rd Creek there is a picnic shelter for your t orchards, the Aumann Family Orchard C use before completing your walk. Powers St w is a few kilometres away at 150 Harris ie llv Gully Road. Open most days for fresh This fi nishes your walk. Time to relax De B d produce and local gourmet foods. and plan your next adventure. a s R r al a nd d Ti The track can be muddy after rain. i n e Follow the perimeter of the old orchard T d Cl c to traverse another small tributary that woo e ring leads to steps. Sp R aym on Tralee Ct d E lliot Ct Old Warrandyte Rd.
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