Luvapuzzle: Carisbrooke Park instead of Cobbler Creek.

It was a total fire ban today, so Cobblers Creek Conservation Park was out of the question, but we opted on the spur of the moment to drive across to Carisbrooke Park and walk there instead. This is a local park in Salisbury council area and very green most of the way around.

There was a bit of water in the creek at the start of the walk (near Main North Rd)

There is a lovely new cover here which would be ideal for a schools championships orienteering.

Some lovely old fig trees

and gum trees

We all thought that this deserved a photo - we were all missing Brian.

We peered through the windows at the old waterwheel museum (not open) . This might be interesting to see sometime when it is open.

It's open on the first Sunday of the month apparently https://sacommunity.org/org/195128-Salisbury_Waterwheel_Museum

We stopped at Pitman Park for morning tea beside some roses and a waterfall.

and watched this fella walking around picking up bits and pieces.

Not long later we passed this quiet pool and then crossed under the Salisbury Highway and made our way out to and under Waterloo Corner Road.

We turned around just past the 5km mark as the sun was starting to show some bite. Not long afterwards we saw this bloke conscientiously searching for discarded metal items in the heat. I hope it was worth the effort for him.

As we were about to cross back under the bridges the Indian Pacific headed out of town just ahead of us.

We followed this ridge line for a while (It was the location of the most shade) and stopped to look at the old well/tank (now filled in). There must be a story here, but there was no sign to explain. Salisbury is quite an old area though, and the stonework looked old.