these trails. The workers found time to carve names, initials and even some political cartoons.

7. GNW Signpost at Baden Powell Campsite

The Baden-Powell Campsite is located here -- beautifully situated in 36 hectares of parkland adjoining Lane Cove National Park, the Scout Centre offers flexible training facilities and cabin style accommodation in a bushland setting only 25 kms from the centre of Sydney. Visit
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8. Lorna Pass

Lorna Track and Conscript Pass are now part of the Great North Walk running from Thornleigh Oval to the Lane Cove River. These walks were built during the Great Depression of the 1930s as a means of offering employment to those who had none. The funds were provided by contributions organized by a local lady, Lorna Brand.

9. Rooted in Rock

Take care along this partof the Great North Walk as there are many rocks and small obstacles. There are also some fantastic trees and bushes as well as plants affected by floods in the Lane Cove River and its tributaries.

10. STEP Trail in Turramurra

The first big landowner was not Irish but German: Johann Henri Rhule, later Reely. But most settlers here were from Ireland. The Connolly and Bourke were both Michaels, or speaking as if in that earlier and much more derogatory world — the ‘Micks’; they bought blocks in North Turramurra and established very successful orchards growing fruit for... More the main Sydney town. Other families were less affluent but still just as grateful to be out of Ireland. Their life was hard: the huge gums that we now treasure had