This was another filling in the gap walk. It was originally to be the Spit Bridge to Chowder Bay as I particularly wanted to show Roz the views up on the Middle Head part of the walk but it wasn’t to be. We wanted to be sure Roz’s knee was good for New Zealand next week so we started the walk on the south side of the bridge to cut out about 1km.
We had no guide book this time so I had to hope that the bits of the foreshore I thought we could walk along did in fact have paths at either end and weren’t too dangerous. Fortunately most of the harbour foreshore is good like that, almost designed for walking despite the number of houses with wonderful back gardens reaching down to the water’s edge1.
We got some good views over to the Manly Scenic Walk and at times all three of the Heads (North, Middle and South). I particularly liked Rosherville Lighthouse sitting nestled between two houses with a walkway leading to it’s entrance halfway up. Looked as if someone like Jonathan Creek should live there. By the time we got to Rosherville Reserve we had come across some up and down bits and more steps than Roz’s knee could handle so we decided we’d aim only for Balmoral Beach and stop there.
Fortunately that wasn’t far. And as it was Good Friday we decided to forget about our sandwiches and have fish and chips instead. I had my fish in a bun2. As we’d gone out late and the temperature was dipping close to 0ºJ I decided to join Roz in the bus home.
