Dave's Creek Country

Area: Binna Burra
Time: 4 + hours approximately (+ lunchtime stop)
Difficulty: easy to moderate Grade 3
Lunch: Please carry it with you
Cost: $2
Car-pool Nerang Fair 8.15 leaving at 8.30
Walk start 9.30 am Meet at 9.20

Walk leader: Warwick 0408 300056

Please read the Conditions of Group Membership and event participation at the end of the walk description.

This walk is a springtime delight, and pretty good in Autumn, too. If you are new to walking, this is an easier grade walk on good tracks with beautiful scenery. What more could you wish for. This is regarded by many as the most interesting walk in the park as far as vegetation is concerned.

It starts in the rainforests of the main range, but during the walk to the circuit itself, the path passes through a small Antarctic Beech forest which has managed to survive at much lower altitudes than usual, possibly due to specialised local colder conditions.

The path then moves into mixtures of rainforest and eucalypt/casuarina forest with occasional patches of piccabeen palms and then at the top of the Dave's Creek ridge, it moves into mallee woodland and finally heath.

We will walk in an anticlockwise direction if dry and a clockwise direction if wet. Flocks of butterflies, drifts of wildflowers and the heady, aromatic rush of honey, lemon and mint combine to create sensory overload on Dave's Creek Circuit in springtime.

Conditions of Group Membership and event participation

1 GCMWWG is not an incorporated association or organisation and is composed of individuals who join with each other in an informal manner to engage in the pleasurable activity of bushwalking and accordingly each individual member is required to take personal responsibility for his or her own safety and to comply with the recommendations published on the Group’s meet up website and with directions given from time to time by any walk leader of a Bushwalk undertaken by the Group.
2 Participants are recommended:
(i) to wear walking boots which provide ankle support;
(ii) carry his or her own rucksack which will contain at least 1 litre of fresh water in watertight containers and personal first aid items including band-aids (or similar), bandages, antiseptic, insect repellents and sunscreen and foodstuffs appropriate to the length and timing of the bushwalk;
(iii) to make a realistic assessment prior to participating in a bushwalk as to whether the participants’ physical condition will allow the participant to enjoyably and safely engage in the bushwalking activity without endangering the safety and enjoyment of other participants;
(iv) to wear or carry clothing suitable for each walk including clothing (such as a waterproof jacket or poncho) that is appropriate for unexpected changes in the weather.
3 Each bushwalk undertaken by the Group shall have a nominated leader who will walk at the front of the Group (“walk leader”) and a nominated person who will walk at the rear of the group (“back marker”). The walk leader will set the pace of the walk and will halt the walk at appropriate times in his or her discretion for rests and drink breaks and meal breaks. The back marker will endeavour to keep the group together at all times and to notify the walk leader if any untoward accident or injury is sustained by any participant. The walk leader and the back marker for each bushwalk will be nominated by the Group Leader.
4 Each participant will be required to observe any directions or instructions given by the walk leader including any instruction to shorten the walk, change the route of the walk or abandon the walk due to any unexpected change of circumstances such as track closure or obstruction, inclement weather and/or injury or illness suffered by any member.
5 Any one of the Group Leader, walk leader or back marker for each bushwalk undertaken by the group shall carry with him or her a mobile phone and a first aid kit.
6 There shall be published in each event's description a degree of difficulty by the Group a statement as to the degree of difficulty of the proposed bushwalk so that members may realistically assess whether they (or their guests) have the requisite degree of physical fitness required to pleasurably and safely undertake the proposed bushwalk.
7 Details of each proposed bushwalk including the walk route, the commencement time and the anticipated time required to complete the walk will be published on the Group’s meet up website.