Rhodes to Cabarita Loop

At Brays Bay Reserve  the Kokoda Memorial Trail starts and winds its way along the mangroves through to Concord Hospital.

The memorial wall at the Rose Garden near Concord Hospital. 

The Thomas Walker Convalescent hospital on the point behind Concord Hospital is now home to Rivendell, a adolescent mental health facility. 

Looking across to kissing Point from Rivendell 

After walking around the point and across to Yaralla, we walked down to Concord West for lunch at a cafe and for my son to catch the train home to get ready for his evening shift.

I then walked back and through Yaralla, which is now the Dame Edith Walker Memorial Hospital

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Majors Bay. 

Then walked on to Mortlake and Wangal Centenary Bushland Reserve.  

I planned to cross the river on the Mortlake car ferry. However the ferry only runs in peak hour and next  crossing wasnt till 2.45pm. I then  walked around Breakfast Point past the huge residential development and parklands.

Looking west up the Parramatta River from Breakfast Point 

And on to Cabarita where I caught the Rivercat up the river and across to Kissing Point. 

Breakfast point from the ferry 

 From KissingPoint it was on to Meadowbank  

Skyfish 

looking back (east) to Kissing Point 

The Ryde bridge over the Parramatta River at Meadowbank. 

If you can have skyfish then you must have a skyboat to catch them. 

Then back over the old railway bridge to Rhodes for the train home after 16klm of walking.

The rail bridge across to Rhodes was designed  by John Whitton and built in 1886 . Without realising the link, I had the day before walked at Lapstone  and crossed the Knapsack Viaduct which was also designed by John Whitton and constructed 1863-1867.

Brays Bay Reserve, Rhodes

Caught the train to Rhodes and met my son for a walk around Parramatta River. Five minutes from the station in Brays Bay Reserve is the old site of Tulloch Ironworks and the Commonwealth Shipbuilding Yard..

Lennox Bridge

Lennox Bridge in Glenbrook on Mitchell's Pass

Lennox Bridge on Mitchells Pass at Glenbrook is the oldest stone arch bridge on the Australian mainland. This elegant single span stone arch bridge was built in local stone and completed in 1833 by David Lennox using unskilled convict labour. It took one year to complete. The sandstone was quarried nearby and the bridge carried all the traffic to western New South Wales until 1926. An early engineering masterpiece. (From Blue Mountains City Tourism)

Glenbrook Creek

Planned to walk Pisgah Rock and Jack Evans Track at Erskine Creek but on entering the National Park at Glenbrook  signage told me the causeway over Glenbrook Creek was closed due to flooding. Must add that this closure was not mentioned on the NPWS website.

I parked the car at the Visitors Centre and walked down to the causeway to find only about 20cm of water over the road and cars easily driving through. Rather than walk back up and drive down I decided to walk along Glenbrook Creek instead. (reasoning Erskine Creek would be up and access harder)

Looking downstream from near the causeway

Jellybean Pool 

Downstream from Jellybean Pool

Along the track 

Blue Pool