{"id":1538,"date":"2025-11-08T09:50:08","date_gmt":"2025-11-07T22:50:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.trailnavigator.com.au\/blog\/?p=1538"},"modified":"2025-11-08T09:50:09","modified_gmt":"2025-11-07T22:50:09","slug":"sunday-walk-along-gardiners-creek","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.trailnavigator.com.au\/blog\/2025\/11\/sunday-walk-along-gardiners-creek\/","title":{"rendered":"Sunday Walk along Gardiners Creek"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

We went on a short walk with our friends last Sunday. Gardiners Creek is located in Melbourne eastern suburbs. It was originally known by its Woiwurrung name Kooyongkoot, meaning \u201chaunt of the waterfowl,\u201d because it was once a favourite gathering place for water birds along the Yarra catchment.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

We started from the car park<\/a> next to the Bennettswood Bowling Club.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Trail<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

The trail was nice and flat.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Wooden sculpture of a rooster. You can see new train station being built in the background.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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Geological sculpture<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

The stacked blocks are different rock types. The labels are ERUPT, LITHIFY, METAMORPHOSE, MELT \u2013 the main processes rocks go through as they change from igneous to sedimentary to metamorphic and back again.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Another wooden sculpture<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

We reached High St Road in Ashwood and turned back. We returned on the other side of the creek. We walked 8 km total.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

We went on a short walk with our friends last Sunday. Gardiners Creek is located in Melbourne eastern suburbs. It was originally known by its Woiwurrung name Kooyongkoot, meaning \u201chaunt of the waterfowl,\u201d because it was once a favourite gathering place for water birds along the Yarra catchment. We started from the car park next […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1539,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[23],"tags":[30,66,158],"class_list":["post-1538","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-melbourne-eastern-suburbs","tag-creek","tag-dog-friendly","tag-sculptures"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.trailnavigator.com.au\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1538","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.trailnavigator.com.au\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.trailnavigator.com.au\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.trailnavigator.com.au\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.trailnavigator.com.au\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1538"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.trailnavigator.com.au\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1538\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1543,"href":"https:\/\/www.trailnavigator.com.au\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1538\/revisions\/1543"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.trailnavigator.com.au\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1539"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.trailnavigator.com.au\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1538"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.trailnavigator.com.au\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1538"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.trailnavigator.com.au\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1538"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}