Walking for Pleasure - Greensborough to Montmerency

The Walking for Pleasure

group organise at least weekly walks for any member of the public. Most walks generally do not involve a cost other than a valid Metcard for the day of travel. An experienced guide will walk you through an area familiar to themselves and exchange historical highlights. Alternatively, put on the sturdy boots and walk along at nature's pace and take some time out from the real world.

Come on Anthony! Pick up the Pace! We haven't got all day to be looking at trees.
What a beautiful and relaxing day. Who would have thought that five seconds from the railway line I have travelled nearly every day for the last six years is this nice walking track alongside the Plenty River. The pace is good and a walk for the able bodied, although the group will accomodate all walking speeds. We head to our first suspension bridge and it is an awesome adventure. It opens to the local skate park alongside some water and our first stop for lunch, and a quick toilet break with the ducks. Toilet score 3.5 / 10. We head back towards Greensborough station but no-one volunteers to go home early, so we all continue to walk upstream. We come across a flock of twenty yellow-tailed black cockatoos. Frolicking and flying in and out of the trees enjoying food and just making a noise. I manage to get about twenty close up photos of these magnificent birds that I haver never seen before. I thought they were in danger of extinction. They are loving the environment here, lots of Acacia pycnantha - Golden Wattle (Australia's Floral Emblem) and Eucalyptus camaldulensis - River Red Gum trees. We push on and come to some unchartered territory. A running track. Inspired by the recent Commonwealth Games I am tempted and encouraged to record a time for the one hundred metres dash. I should have volunteered my services. We trespass in the local school and disturb some of the kids behind the sheds. They point us in the right direction and we make it to Monty station just in time for the train trip back to the big smoke. To look at the twenty photos for the day go to