February Outing - Heritage Road, Spicers Gap, 19 February 2022

Please follow all the current COVID-19 restrictions especially social distancing guidelines. We would prefer people to be double-vaccinated.

Heritage Road, Spicers Gap

Time & place: Meet at the Boonah State (Primary) School car park at 8.00am. This change is made in case weather conditions make Spicers impassable. We will then go to Mt French instead.

Activities: This is a resumption of last year’s cancelled August outing. We’ll be walking along the heritage road to “discover some of the best roadbuilding practices of the pioneering period. Signs explain the techniques, used between 1850 and 1870, and you can still see remnants of the road built in 1860 by surveyor and engineer Robert Austin.” (from the National Park website) As usual the Field Nats interest is for everything natural. We may just chance to look at the historical aspects of this convict-built road. It will be interesting also to see how the area is recovering after the 2019 bushfire. It is 1.6 km to the end of the conservation section and then we have to retrace our steps to the carpark. I suggest we lunch back at the campground.

Facilities: The closest toilets are at the campground which you pass on the way up to the lookout. Picnic tables are here also. There is one picnic table at the lookout.

Bring: Morning tea, lunch, snacks & liquid refreshment, etc.; chairs & tables (as we won’t all fit around a picnic table); binocs, cameras, field guides, etc.