Back Info Map. Elgar Road and Burwood Highway, Burwood. Next Prev. Gardiners Creek Trail, near Deakin University created by. Report improper content Rate this walk. Find out more. Points of Interest 1. Playground Playground near Stott St. Gardiners Creek A view of the creek. Open space A large open area beside the path and creek. Path and creek A view of the slower section of the creek.
Bridge One of the bridges over the creek. Bridge One of the bridges across the creek. Deakin Pedestrian Bridge The pedestrian bridge that links Deakin's two campuses. Deakin Pedestrian Bridge A view from on the bridge. Picnic Spot. Drinking Water available. Seating Available. Dog off-leash area. You will also travel through Gardiners, Ashwood, Jingella and Holmesglen reserves where a number of local sports grounds are located.
The trail heads out of the municipality at the Warrigal Road underpass. Distance One-Way: 1 Holmesglen Station - 3. Level of Difficulty: Easy - Suitable for all ages and fitness levels. Walking tracks are generally flat, and on sealed or well-established paths. Disability Access: Easy - Mainly sealed or well-kept trails.
Downstream links run through various reserves in the cities of Monash, Boroondara and Stonnington before the Creek runs into the Yarra at Toorak. The last of these names seems to have been applied to several creeks in the area. Wrighte assumed that his run covered the ground two or three miles east of Marionvale and was not backward in complaining to the authorities of the day concerning interlopers cutting in on his patch of earth.
In he complained to Governor Latrobe about timber-cutters on his land, including one Charles Mullins, who had taken up operations near present-day Stott St, Box Hill South. By , logging was well underway in the Damper Creek valley and by the time of the depression of the s, much of the area had been cleared, mainly for orchards.
Families that were finding the going tough, had to venture further and further out to conduct their tree-felling, often the only source of income during these hard times. From this information, one can get the general idea that the area around present-day Gardiners Creek Reserve was cleared very early in the piece.
Lusitania, and arrived in Melbourne on 25 April. An aerial photo taken of the northern half of the reserve on 23rd December , shows that the land was mainly cleared with small areas of remnant adjacent to the present-day Morton St and also at the junction of Gardiners Creek and Damper Creek, which flows in from the south-eastern boundary of Wattle Park.
Apparently this was the site of a sizeable billabong. The year period following the second world war saw a considerable amount of residential development in the area and the establishment of many schools, colleges and institutions including: The Princess Elizabeth Deaf School, Burwood High, Burwood Tech, Wattle Park High and Bennetswood Primary, to name a few.
There was a rubbish tip at the southern end near the Burwood Highway and other activities, such as the pony club near Glengarry Avenue, were established. By the early s, the State Government had abandoned plans for the Healesville Freeway.
Despite a number of objections, the Reserve was created. The creek was lined with rocks and a number of rock-weirs were installed. A billabong and lake were formed at the Station Street end. The junction with Damper Creek from Wattle Park was straightened. For its part, the City of Box Hill installed paths down both sides of the creek, joining, wherever possible, existing mature Eucalypts more on that later!
According to the Draft Management Plan for the Reserve, prepared in , most of the topsoil in the Reserve had been overlaid with landfill brought in from road construction projects. The council organised planting days involving school groups, cubs, scouts, various institutions, etc and as one Council employee described it to me, as one group were boarding their bus following a planting session, another group was disembarking from the next bus.
In earlier days, unfortunately, not all of the plants were indigenous. They included Acacia decurrens, Melaleuca stypheloides and Casuarina cunninghamiana most have now been removed. As people became more aware of the need to plant indigenous, more care was taken to select plants that came from local stock. In the early s, following election of the Kennett Government and subsequent Council amalgamations, the amount of resources available for Council involvement in development of the reserve diminished.
In , Shirley and I joined Greenlink and we have been involved with the Reserve since that time. A short while late, Sue Betheras joined us.
It is worthwhile to pause here and acknowledge that most of the groundwork in setting up the reserve, revegetating it and making it what it is today, was undertaken by employees of the former City of Box Hill and those hundreds of volunteers who planted all of those trees during the 80s and early 90s.
In particular, we would like to single out Peter Cockroft who has planted a significant area of the Reserve. Unlike earlier planting efforts, our planting regime has always included all storeys at once, from grasses and herbs through to sedges, bushes and trees. Its most common plant is Kikuyu. It is, in the opinion of many, the busiest park in the City of Whitehorse. Unlike most parks in the City, Gardiners Creek reserve has little remnant indigenous vegetation and was created from scratch….
Local long-term resident and bird enthusiast, John Peter, has been keeping excellent records of bird sightings over the past thirteen years.
During this period, John has documented sightings of at least different species of birds. The election of the Kennett Government in brought about a number of changes in the way that residential land is used. One of these was the introduction of Vic-code, which made it far easier for establishment of multiple-occupancy of building sites that had formerly contained a single dwelling.
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