This walk was organised and led by me as the second part of an irregular CBC Tuesday walk:

(Completing The Bog Hut walk, we drove back to Tharwa, and walked the Onyong Track and the Tharwa Explorer Walking Track to De Salis Cemetery.)

Walk

Arriving at Tharwa, we sat at a table overlooking the reserve beside the bridge and enjoyed a second lunch. Lovely and warm in the sun and out of the wind.

Away at 2.05pm, we walked down to under the Tharwa Bridge and picked up the (H)Onyong Track markers. See page 3 of the brochure for a description of the walk and page 10 for a map. They took us downstream along the side of the river for 500m. But don't go, if you're looking for anything about Onyong - no interpretive signage - just 'end of walk, go back'. Nice view back up to the Tharwa Bridge (see pic 1). We returned to the bridge.

Heading south (upstream), we picked up the markers for the Tharwa Explorer Walking Track. It took us along the Murrumbidgee River bank past the back of Cuppacumbalong and Outward Bound, entering into the Gingerline Nature Reserve. Nice poplars, if you're into them (see pic 2). Finally to the De Salis cemetery, with excellent signage.

A unique place, with an outer and inner dry-stone wall. 16 burials, but not all with headstones. An obelisk in the inner stone wall (see pic 3), with a wooden stile over the wall to allow us to enter.

The Bog Hut and these two little wanders gave us a reasonable day. Thanks for your company Carol, John, Max and Philip.

Distance: 3.5km  Climb: 50m.  Time: 2.05 - 3.10pm (call it 1hr) with no stops (except for viewing).
Grading: S/E,X; VE(3).

KMZ file for Google Earth/Maps: Onyong Track and De Sallis Cemetery