Ballarat to Creswick

The Miner's Legacy, the bush recovers.  One hundred years ago, miners chopped down all the trees and turned over every stone. Now the mining country north of Ballarat is filled with bird song and bright bush flowers.

the walk starts at the Ballarat railway station the whole walk is marked with marked posts.  This walk uses the walking legs logo on the bottom of this post Everywhere the peas brighten the disturbed ground of old mining areas
blue tongue lizards warn their enemies with hisses and their large blue tongue mine shafts dot the walk .. watch out! the bright pink carpets of the Tetratheca
the papery daisies of the Craspedia genus many lakes were made as the miners left their works the fine architecture of the gold towns

These pictures were taken in October 1999