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Beauty Point to Balmoral via Rosherville Reserve
This walk is best done on a fine day as the views across Middle Harbour are then at their sparkling best. The first part of the walk is a descent through leafy winding streets to a beautiful grassy reserve completely unspoiled by any commercial development. The reserve lies behind a white sandy beach. Ken Done has his studio on the foreshore and the intense light and brilliant colours provided the inspiration for much of his work. The area was first settled by one Barney Kearns who made his living rowing people across to Clontarf from 1830. The area was initially a swamp; once it was drained in the early part of the 20th century it became a busy area with mini-farms, boat sheds and shacks for fishermen and itinerant workers. The last shack was removed in 1945.
Once you have explored the reserve and beach you have a choice of two routes to Balmoral. You can either scramble over the rocks along the foreshore (easiest at low tide) or you can follow a path out of the reserve up to one of Mosman’s most sought after streets, Hopetoun Avenue. This leads in turn to another bush path through Wyargine reserve, dropping down to Edwards Beach. The last part of the walk is along the beach.
Mosman Council has produced a Balmoral self guided heritage walk. You can download it here.
Click here to find out more about points of interest on this walk and download a pdf of a single double sided colour A4 sheet with a map and instructions you take take along with you when you do the walk.
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For more photos from this walk, click here.