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1 The Two Valley Trail explores two very different inner-city valleys and their waterways:The Cooks River Valley is part of Sydney s multicultural heartland. Although the area is densely populated, the river frontage provides a welcome corridor of green space, flanked in sections by mangroves and indigenous vegetation. Here the Trail runs on a shared bicycle path through attractive parklands and playing fields, close to the Wolli Creek Valley includes the 50 ha of remnant bushland of the Wolli Creek Regional Park, with rugged sandstone escarpments. A combination of native heath and forest provides shelter for many native birds, insects and lizards. The Trail runs along easy bush tracks and across grasslands, and gives occasional glimpses of the lines and bus services in both valleys give access at a large number of points.

2 See map Flying-foxesA view down Cooks RiverGirrahween Park - Deb LittleThe Two Va!ey Trail is an initiative of: Cooks River Valley Association: ; Wolli Creek Preservation Society: ; PO Box 270 Earlwood 2206 Mudcrabs: Cooks River Eco-volunteers: Friends of Ewen Park: Riverlife Interpretive Tours (supported by Canterbury , Marrickville, and Strathfield Councils): Two Valley Trail Project also receives support from:Wolli Creek Reflections - Barry PorterBoat Harbour, Cooks River - John WrightSydney CBDA irportTwo Valley TrailEgret wading - Kate RyderDawn Mist - Liz MillenFrom Campsie to Bexley North via the valleys of theCooks River and Wolli Creek "wo Va!ey Trail A thirteen-kilometre walkin Sydney s inner South-WestMany hours of work by community volunteers go into maintaining and improving the Trail and its environment.

3 Please don t make their work harder. Take your rubbish with you and leave the plants as you find Walks along various sections of the Trail are available. For information on these contact the Wolli Creek Preservation Society and Riverlife Interpretive Resources have been created so that the Two Valley Trail can be used as an outdoor classroom. Teachers notes and activity sheets cover both the natural and built environments and a wide range of issues, including biodiversity and historical themes. For information on these contact the Cooks River Valley Association or the Wolli Creek Preservation Society or access the materials online at and new members are welcomed by all the Two Valley Trail groups. See contact details Creek Regional Park is under the management of the National Parks and Wildlife Service (part of the Department of Environment and Climate Change).

4 Dogs must be on a leash and droppings collected and removed No bicycles or motorised vehicles allowed Please keep on the track Do not cut, remove or trample any plants, even weeds Help by removing litter on or adjacent to the TrailGone fishin - Adam MorisseyDarter- Voren O BrienVolunteer Mudcrabs collecting litter - Cooks River Volunteer bush regenerators restoring bushland Wolli CreekOn the track - Deb LittleCorridors of GreenThe Wolli Creek section of the Two Valley Trail already forms a vital vegetation corridor, of regional significance. Such vegetation corridors are important for the survival of native plants because they provide the continuous or closely spaced tree cover needed by native insects and birds, which in turn pollinate many of the plants and spread their remain along Wolli Creek, notably at Turrella Reserve.

5 Major funding from the Australian Government s Natural Heritage Fund via the Sydney Metropolitan Catchment Management Authority, contributions by NPWS and Canterbury City Council staff, and work by volunteers from WCPS and elsewhere, enable major plantings to be made to close gaps using local seed sources. Similar work is underway in parts of the Cooks River section, particularly at Rosedale Reserve, where the Mudcrabs are regular of their extent and continuity, the foreshores of the two waterways are key elements in creating a 'Green Web' to link up the various isolated pockets of remnant bushland in the wider Cooks River Finch - Voren O BrienAABCDEFGHIJKLMNOP1234567PP123456732 5327328329330624362446245624662476244200 m intervals 1 km grid (MGA coords)The Two Valley TrailCooks River and Wolli CreekWalking TracksLEGENDB ushlandOpen spaceTwo Valley TrailShared walking/cycle trackRoute on streetsFormed walking trackRoute across parklandRailway stationBus stopToilets (with approx.)

6 Times)Watercourse; bridgeLookoutPoint of interestBush regeneration under wayNative revegetation sites*#Mapping by Geoff ParkSJ Harrison ReserveSlade RdReserveJohnston Stbush *TurrellaReserve #NannygoatHill*CoolibahReserveGirrahween Park*HughesParkPat O'ConnorReserve Ewen ParkWills Ground Beaman ParkStaffordWalkSteelParkGough WhitlamParkMackeyParkWaterworth ParkWolliBluffStotts ReserveYatama ParkCroydonParkPicken OvalRosedaleReserve #SandoReserveFlockhartParkBrownsReserveL ittleTaskerParkTasker ParkIce Rink& PoolCanterburyVelodromeTempeRecreationRe serveCahill Parklanewayalongcanalsite ofBexley (1820)MarrickvilleGolfCourseCanterbury ParkRacecourseKogarahGolf CourseBardwell ValleyGolf CourseEARLWOODBEXLEY NORTHBARDWELL PARKBARDWELLVALLEYTURRELLAWOLLICREEKTEMP ESYDENHAMMARRICKVILLEDULWICH HILLHURLSTONE PARKCANTERBURYCAMPSIEBELMOREKINGSGROVEUN DERCLIFFESWOOSSWOOSW olli SectionWaterworth TrackUndercliffe TrackJackson TrackGirrahween TrackBray Wetlands TrackIlloura TrackBexley North Track24 days7am-4pm24/724/7 Mon-Sat8am-4pmMon-Fri6am-10pmBus routes412 423471 472499 Bus route412 Bus route423 Bus routes445 471472 487 Bus routes494 499 Bus routes400 487492 494499 Bus routes400472 499 Bus route471 Route 400 busBexley Nth to Campsie20 min service dailyStops shown as COOKSRIVERC upandSaucerCreekWolliCreekWolliCreekBard well CkM5 EAST MOTORWAYBEXLEY

7 ROADCANTERBURY ROADPRINCESHIGHWAYMARSH STNEW CANTERBURYROADBEAMISH STWilliam StJunee CrDunkirk AveJarrett StPoole StLundy AveWoolcott StPermanentAveFore StBroughtonStHomer StWardell RdWardell RdBayview AveUnwins Bridge RdFrost StHomer StMalley AveBrayAveHartill-LawAveClarke StMarrickvilleRoadIllawarraRdBrighton AveSeventh AveSlade RdDarleyRdThis leaflet sponsored by:Some points of interestA. The Sugar House was originally built as a sugar mill in 1840-42, and converted to residential units from The Boat Harbour was built in 1964 for use by Sea Cadets, but silted up within five Park is a popular picnic area, situated on one of the most beautiful bends in the Decaying steel piling along some sections of the river is due to be replaced from 2008 The South-West Ocean Outfall Sewer (SWOOS) was built in 1896; the decorative brickwork is heritage Gardens of the World was constructed in 2006 by the City of Canterbury as a multicultural Flood zone, constructed by the City of Canterbury in 2007/8 to reduce erosion and promote native saltmarsh growth.

8 # Canoe Club. The 1976 building replaced an older wooden boatshed built much earlier and occupied by the Club in Canterbury Velodrome opened in 1982, but there appears to have been a cycling venue here since at least the Wolli Bluff is a prominent landmark and the eastern end of Wolli Creek Regional Park.*K. Jackson Place s historic stone cottages from the 1920s are heri-tage listed and built into an old quarry.* L. The M5E tunnel ventilation stack pumps out unfiltered emis-sions from 100,000 vehicle movements a day (2007).M. The weir below Turrella Reserve created a fresh water reservoir for market gardens on the flats. A fishway was due for construction in 2008 to increase fish spawning Avenue wetland was created as a billabong when the creek was straightened under Hartill-Law Avenue in 1949.

9 *#O. Paperbark Creek: channel reconstructed in 2007. Uncrossable in heavy rain.*#P. Bexley Road bridge over the creek (built 1930s) is subject to flash flooding in heavy rain. Two Valley TrailWalk from from Bexley NorthTrail access pointCOOKS RIVERCOOKS RIVERWOLLI CREEKCUP & SAUCERCREEKto StrathfieldPicken OvalCanterbury Park RacecourseCanterbury RdCanterbury RdHomer Botany BayWolliBluffTurrella Park North to Canterbury via Cup & Saucer Creek: (not to scale)CAMPSIEBEXLEY morning conversation - Liz MillenClouds - Tanja PobrajacSpoonbill wading - Liz MillenPrinted 0308 by Planet Press BankstownSuperb Fairy-wren singing -Paul ByrnesWinter Mist - Paul ByrnesCredited photographs taken from the Two Valley Trail Photographic Exhibition 2008