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TWO VALLEY TRAIL CIRCUIT

6 December 2007

GREAT PHOTOS OF COOKS RIVER & WOLLI CREEK VALLEYS

Photographs showing the great views and hidden treasures to be found in the Cooks River and Wolli Creek valleys are being shown in an exhibition to be launched in April 2008.

The photographs will go on public exhibition, be placed on the internet, and be used to illustrate a local calendar, educational materials and a planned book about the area.

The exhibition and its follow-ups are part of a wider project by five local community groups centred around the Two Valley Trail and Circuit. "These two long walks are already walkable but only partly known," said spokesperson Peter Stevens, from the Wolli Creek Preservation Society. The Trail runs for 13km through bushland, parkland and playing fields from Bexley North station to Campsie station via the junction of the Cooks River and Wolli Creek at Tempe. The Circuit diverges from the Cooks River Valley up Cup and Saucer Creek to complete a circuit to Bexley North.

"Our wider project will include a leaflet in several community languages, with a detailed map of the walks, a variety of educational materials for use by schools, a book giving more detail of the historical and environmental points of interest along the Trail and Circuit, and a variety of guided outings using sections of the walks" Peter Stevens explained.

The five local groups working on these projects are:

• Cooks River Valley Association (CRVA)
  
• Friends of Ewen Park (FEP)
  
• Mudcrabs
  
• RiverLife Interpretive Tours
  
• Wolli Creek Preservation Society (WCPS)
  

"This is not a competition; there are no prizes other than inclusion!" he advised. Photographs will be selected based on photographic calibre, of course, but also on interest and overall considerations of variety and range. The groups have already approached a major public figure to launch the exhibition in April 2008.

"We'd like to get good coverage of the whole length of the walks for the exhibition," said Peter Munro. "This is a big community effort to promote the positive values of our waterways, which locals know, but which are often missed when the focus is on problems," he stressed. " We want people to contribute, and to allow us to use their photographs - with credits, of course!"

More http://www.crva.org.au or http://www.wollicreek.org.au

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