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Hole/Zinnia Spur turnoff WZINHOLSP7 0395445 /6592071 ASL 942 to Campsite nr. Bark Hut BARKHUT 0396300/ 6592400

 1.10 km

20 minutes


 

 

1: 25000 Map

Projection

(AGD 66)

 Waypoint Name Zone Eastings Northings

HASL

(metres)
Winterbourne UTM ZINNHOLSP7 56J 0395445 6592070

942
Winterbourne UTM BARKHUT 56J 396300 6592400

864

This section is easy walking, as it heads steadily downhill through dry sclerophyll forest on Tabletop Trail. The open area around the old Bark Hut is an excellent campsite.

There is a good-sized open area around Bark Hut…(Photo Martin Lang) with remnants of a fence which once enclosed it…(Photo Martin Lang)
… plenty of soft green grass …(Photo Martin Lang) .. and convenient trees for shade and stringing up a clothesline.
The dam is gradually silting up, and the water would need treatment by filtering and the addition of sterilizing tablets, or boiling for a few minutes, before you could safely drink it. Apparently there is permanent water a little further down the streamline Once there was a fenced vegetable garden here, and the peach tree is another sign of european occupation. (Photo Martin Lang)

We were a bit early for ripe peaches. But you seldom get to them before the birds, who seem to prefer their peaches quite green. (Photo Martin Lang)

A Jewel Beetle (Family Buprestidae). There are over 28,000 species of beetles in Australia, 400,000 species worldwide, and new species are discovered frequently. The naturalist, J B S Haldane, was asked by a cleric about what he might infer about God, given his wide ranging study of nature. He supposedly replied that the creator must have had "an inordinate fondness for beetles" given he had made so many. (Photo Martin Lang)