A walk through Hornsby heritage - sort of : July 7 2026

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Another grey day. Had to wait at home for a delivery. Got that in place early afternoon. Enough time to do an umbrella walk. Took the train to walk a part of the Great North Walk. Changed my mind part way - walk from Hornsby down toward Blue Gum walk was the idea instead of from Berowra

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Can always bank on finding a brush turkey or two on the roadside before getting to the bush

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Road work happening going down to Old Mans Valley - no idea what that is or was

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Chose not to take this path onto Great North Walk. Walked it before. A bit narrow to be walking with an umbrella in the rain. Stick to the road to access the path where it goes down the Heritage Steps

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Council have been talking about the great new walks they created around the quarry. Those start here at the old crusher plant. New signage. Fenced off the building. Made a nice park with some gym equipment and a picnic table and parking. No toilets and no bbq.

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They made a new set of stairs going down toward the quarry. Labelled them the Heritage Steps. Strange as this is the opposite direction to the original Heritage Steps

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Had quite a bit of rain but not enough to get this creek running

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Only sign of orchids - tongue orchid leaves

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View through the trees to the quarry below. There is a track that skirts the quarry - heading left and keeping the quarry to the right. It was closed rjis end - too bad as I know there are orchids where it joins Blue Gum walk. Been closed for years from the other side. The quarry is still working = noisy

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Track looped back to a path I had chosen not to walk. Walked it a bit - oops - no pedestrians. Even on a school holiday day there were no riders happy to ride in the rain. Guess where I landed up? Yep - the road work going down to Old Mans Valley. Looping back the way I came

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And landing up next to the swimming pool. What Council has done is named the whole section of new steps as Heritage Steps - 6 month old steps are now Heritage Steps.

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As I had done my steps and explored a new walk decided to head back to the station. That offered up some new Hornsby photo angles. The court house.

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Council offices where they laid the plans for the new-old Heritage Steps. Normally I am whizzing along this road on my bicycle

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Aloes framing another old building

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Have photographed this one before just down from the station

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Hornsby station - the grand old part

Did get the weekly investing post done earlier than normal

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Quiet night for dinner - leftovers
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07/07/2026
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Daily Activity,House Chores,Photowalking

Height
183 cm
Weight
90 kg
Body Fat
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Waist
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