We are SO, SO lucky.
Springtime in Glenbrook is lovely, and our local walks are spectacularly beautiful at present, with the springtime flowers. 

This is a Waratah – the symbolic flower of New South Wales.

Most Europeans (including myself prior to coming here) do not think of Australia as a land of lovely flowers. Yet at times it is – see the previous ‘blog – and just at present the local bushland is at its floral best, I believe.

The waratah flower is about the size of a rose, and is always some shade of red.  As we walked through Glenbrook Gorge this week there were quite a few of them, as well as the other flowers shows in the previous ‘blog.

As we walked into the creek, we walked along one of the many paths we now realise exist in our local countryside, purely for recreation: apparently in the early railway tourism days, all the local townships competed to attract tourists, constructing paths and staircases for walkers to use to see the valleys.

There are some beautiful little creeks feeding onto the  main one.

Some more pictures of Waratahs.