Ku-ring-gai Walking Tracks

Aborigines of the Sydney Region

before 1788
Peter Turbet, 1989
Burnum Burnums Wildthings
Geoff Sainty, Peter Abell etc.,
Surrey Jacobs, 2000
Urban Wildlife of New
South Wales
J Pastorelli, 1990

further
information
Keep on the track to
minimise impacts
To remove or deface
natural and cultural features
is prohibited
No dogs, this track passes
through Garigal National Park
Leave only footprints, take
your rubbish with you
Wear appropriate footwear
Notify someone of your
route and estimated time
of return
Take drinking water

Two Creeks Track

Slade Avenue Lindfield to
Babbage Road Roseville
Printed 2010

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Fax (02) 9424 0001
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Pymble NSW 2073
Ku-ring-gai Council
818 Pacific Highway
Gordon NSW 2072

Ku-ring-gai Council

Ku-ring-gai Council

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the natural communities
The Two Creeks Track passes by
sandstone outcrops, magnificent
wildflower displays, scenic water views
and tidal wetlands.
Each of these environments supports a
different plant community. Within these
communities there are a rich variety of
textures, colours and shapes.
Plants living on the dry sandstone ridges
and rocky slopes feel prickly and tough.
Close examination of these plants will
show a variety of adaptations to life in this
hot dry environment. Many species such
as Hakeas have long, narrow pointed
leaves to help reduce water loss.
Others like the Angophoras and Banksias
have hard leathery leaves.
Water loss is not a problem near creek
lines or sheltered areas. Here, moisture
loving plants such as Christmas Bush,
Coachwood and Black Wattle grow along
the creek banks as well as noxious Privets
and Lantana. On the slopes above the
creeks, Blackbutts and Angophoras grow
tall and create a canopy that shelters the
understorey and groundcovers.
On the foreshores, mudflats have formed
from sediment washed down the creeks.
In this intertidal zone rushes, sedges,
herbs and mangroves grow.

Mangroves and sedges are able to

survive here by secreting salt from
glands on their leaves.
The strange spikes sticking up from the
mud are pnuematophores, the
Mangroves aerial roots.
The mudflats are home to crabs, fish,
prawns, cockles and oysters.
By night slugs emerge to graze on algae
fields. All these small creatures provide
food for the familiar White-faced Herons,
Azure Kingfishers, Stingrays and Bream.
The mudflats and pneumatophores are
very sensitive to impacts. Please avoid
walking in these areas.

remember...
the water and throw a variety of shell fish
onto the shore. Oysters and other species
were opened by thumbnail, stone hammer
or teeth. Take a close look as you walk
along the foreshore. Shell middens, the
residue of ancient shellfish meals can
still be found. These sites are valued by
Aboriginal people and their connection
to the land with enduring spiritual and
educational value. All Aboriginal relics
are protected under NPWS Act 1974 and
it is an offence to dig or damage them.
Please do not disturb the middens (fines
do apply).

imagine
Imagine Middle Harbour over hundred
years ago. Lives for the local Aboriginal
people were centred on the waterways.
Women would have fished from paperbark
canoes with fishing lines made from the
bark of a stringy bark tree or other native
plants and hooks, of shell or bone, while
the men waded through the shallows
shouldering several long fish spears. A
spear was made from a grass tree spike
tipped with four fire hardened Eucalypt
barbs, used to catch fish.
Shellfish were also a common food source
for the local people. Men would dive into

history of the track

points of interest

Much of the western shoreline of Middle

Harbour was declared a park in April
1892 and called Roseville Park under
the control of a board of trustees.
Formal stone walking tracks, stone
seats, stone bridges and sandstone
steps were constructed in areas used
by Aboriginal people for centuries. In
1917 during WW1, an Engineer Officers
Training School was established and
temporary bridges, walls and trenches
were constructed. An inscription C
Coy Engineers chiselled into rock near
Moores Creek provides evidence of this.

Post-war cobbled tracks and

stonework
Coachwood forests
Sweeping water vistas
Range of vegetation communities
from moist gullies to Sydney
sandstone bush
Two Creeks Track
Distance: 6 km
Difficulty: Class 3 Moderate
Duration: 2 hours
Moderate:
A distinct track with steep and rough
sections, steps and some difficulties.
Moderate safety level. Suitable for
people who walk occasionally.

The gatehouse at the track entrance

to Seven Little Australians Park was
constructed in the 1920s by Council
workmen. Additional track work
was done in the late 1920s when
the sewer was built and during the
Great Depression by Government
Unemployment Relief Scheme work
gangs from 1932, when Eastern Arterial
Road construction began.
The Two Creeks Track is now managed
by Ku ring gai Council and Garigal
National Park.

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