The area bordered by Duffys Forest and Terret Hills to the south, and Smiths Creek and Cowan Creek to the north and north-east.
Shelter near Smiths Creek, which has a charcoal drawing of a snake
Duffy Trig is a well-preserved trig station in Duffy’s Forest, accessible via an informal walking track from Booralie Road.
An off-track route along “White Trig Ridge”, which passes the depiled White Trig before reaching some vantage points over Bobbin Head and Cowan Creek.
Reached via an 800m off-track route from the Cullamine Fire Trail, the White Trig has been significantly depiled.
The McCarrs Creek Loop is a challenging and partly off-track bushwalk. It takes the easy Duck Holes Trail down to the bottom, and returns by following McCarrs Creek.
Aboriginal engraving of a single shield with two transverse lines, to the east of St Ives Showground.
On a rock platform above a tributary of Kierans Creek are two emus. Both are quite weathered, and the full outline of the figures hard to make out. Originally discovered by the “Old Desperates Walking Group”, the condition of the engravings has considerably deteriorated since they were first seen. The Read more…
One of two shelters with art (SWA) above McCarrs Creek, which has a large number of negative and positive hand prints in red ochre.
One of two shelters with art (SWA) above McCarrs Creek, which has a large number of hand stencils in red ochre.
The partly-destroyed Ryland Trig Station is reached by a short but somewhat arduous bush-bash along a ridge from the Ryland Trail.