Ventemans Reach and Lovetts Reserve Guided Bushwalks

You can book for either Ventemans Reach or Lovetts Reserve or both (to book both choose 1 x 9am and 1 x 11 am). 

Note:  if you are booking for more than one person you must provide the name for each person.

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Ventemans Reach track is part bush track with a few rocks and tree roots to negotiate and part boardwalk.

Lovetts Reserve track is all bush track with rough ground, uneven and steep rock steps and tree roots requiring a good degree of sure footedness to negotiate.

The Walks

Our expert guides will lead you on a discovery of two very different ecological environments, explaining the history of the area and identifying the native plants and plant communities along the way.

Ventemans Reach (return walk back to Blackman Park)

The walk commences on a bush track down to the river and mangroves. Above the track, amongst sandstone outcrops, you’ll see Angophoras, Banksias, Grevilleas, Kunzeas and many more. Continue on a boardwalk to Ventemans Reach, the most expansive and diverse wetland community in Lane Cove, with views over sedge marshes through Melaleucas, Casuarina and Mangroves to Lane Cove River.

Lovetts Reserve (circle walk back to Blackman Park)

This rocky track traverses the hill to the South of Blackman Park, offering expansive views over Lane Cove River.  It passes through beautiful sandstone vegetation including Angophoras and Xanthorrhoea.  In the mid and under storey you will see various Acacias, Persoonia and Crowea.  The track then hugs a high, mossy cliff with sundews (Drosera sp.) and Epacris longiflora between the ferns.  At The Boreen, the site of an old cottage above the river, walk back a short distance and exit via Myee Crescent, then down through the bush to Blackman Park.

Note: 

You can book for either Ventemans Reach or Lovetts Reserve or both (to book both choose 1 x 9am and 1 x 11 am).  We encourage you to book for both so you can appreciate the difference between the river side vegetation and the dryer hillside vegetation.  Each walk will return to Blackman Park where there are toilets and picnic facilities. There will be a short break for a quick snack and chat before commencing the 11 am walk.