{"id":821,"date":"2023-09-22T11:48:00","date_gmt":"2023-09-22T00:48:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/trailnavigator.com.au\/blog\/?p=821"},"modified":"2023-08-20T18:36:29","modified_gmt":"2023-08-20T07:36:29","slug":"diamond-creek-trail-eltham-to-wattle-glen","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.trailnavigator.com.au\/blog\/2023\/09\/diamond-creek-trail-eltham-to-wattle-glen\/","title":{"rendered":"Diamond Creek Trail – Eltham to Wattle Glen"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

We wanted to walk on the Diamond Creek Trail and return back by train for long time and finally we did it on King’s Birthday holiday.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

We took a train to Eltham and started walking north.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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There were a lot of cyclists and people with dogs. Soon we reached Eltham Adventure Playground<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Eltham North Adventure Playground<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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Diamond Creek<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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Sheep grazing on grass<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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Diamond Creek, view from the bridge<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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You can see a windmill in the distance<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

Windmill House has interesting history<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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The sign reads:<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Diamond Creek to Wattle Glen<\/h5>\n\n\n\n

The 12.5km Diamond Creek Trail follows the Diamond Creek between Eltham and Hurstbridge. Joining with the Main Yarra Trail at the Yarra River, it provides a continuous 55km trail into the city.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

This 2.5km section from Diamond Creek to Wattle Clen is a shared trail for pedestrians, cyclists and horse riders and has three creek crossings.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The area has been roamed for centuries by the traditional owners, the Wurundjeri-willam clan of the Woi-wurrung- speaking people, and includes sites of significance.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The trail passes through forest dominated by manna gums (binap in traditional Woi-wurrung language). Keep an eye out for kangaroos (marram), wallabies (wimbi), echidnas (gawarn) and wombats (warin), or even a platypus (Dulaiwurrong) in the creek (yuluk).<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Herberts Ruin, the remains of William Herbert’s 1861 stone house and stables, is evidence of Nillumbik’s pioneering days.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n

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Dogs are allowed on leash<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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\"Eltham<\/a><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

We reached Wattle Glen station pretty tired. Fortunately we didn’t have to wait long for the train. We walked 11 km total. The walk took us 2 hours and 20 minutes to complete. You can check recording of our walk<\/a> on Strava website.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

We wanted to walk on the Diamond Creek Trail and return back by train for long time and finally we did it on King’s Birthday holiday. We took a train to Eltham and started walking north. There were a lot of cyclists and people with dogs. Soon we reached Eltham Adventure Playground. Windmill House has […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":836,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[30,66,131,130],"class_list":["post-821","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-melbourne-northern-suburbs","tag-creek","tag-dog-friendly","tag-playground","tag-sheep"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.trailnavigator.com.au\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/821","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=821"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.trailnavigator.com.au\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/821\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":837,"href":"https:\/\/www.trailnavigator.com.au\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/821\/revisions\/837"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.trailnavigator.com.au\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/836"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.trailnavigator.com.au\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=821"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.trailnavigator.com.au\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=821"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.trailnavigator.com.au\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=821"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}