The monthly walk, with 14 participants, took us around Royal Park in Parkville and was memorable for a couple of reasons.
Firstly, the walk - Royal Park, is Melbourne's largest at 200 hectares and so full of almost scrubby bush land, that one can forget how close to the centre of Melbourne you really are. The walk was a little over 5K and very flat. There were many points of interest including the native grassland circle in the park's heart, unstructured, bush land areas in the north, and a beautiful garden based on the Wurundjeri's seven seasons. In the 1970s-established Australian Native Garden along Gatehouse Street, included the Burke and Wills memorial on MacArthur Rd.
Secondly, it was the first time for any Bearbrass event that male attendees outnumbered female attendees!
As usual, coffee was a key element of the walk in the beautiful spring sun, sitting outside the Royal Park golf club, which served very good coffee.