March 2026 - Clarence Foreshore Trail

Thanks to Wayne for organising this walk, and writing its story. The March walk was originally planned for Cape Queen Elizabeth on Bruny Island. Unfortunately the weather forecast was not great for Bruny Island, plus a few people couldn't make it due to other plans the day before or the day after the proposed walk. It was then determined to move the walk much closer to suburbia, so we settled on the Clarence Foreshore Trail from Howrah Beach to the Bellerive waterfront, partaking of lunch in Bellerive and meandering back to the starting point on Howrah Road.

The starters from Howrah Road were Catherine, Peter, Bob, Angie, Summa, Gerwyn & Wayne. A few of us met Angie at Atmosfire Cafe, Howrah, for a drink before the walk.

Along the track we passed the Howrah Primary School, where a few students were partaking in physical exercise, probably more energetically than us. At the Wentworth Bike Park & Play Park there were some parents and children enjoying a pleasant Friday morning.

We walked around the headland towards Bellerive Beach, and the headland is where we met Gary, who joined us there for part of the walk.

Coming down from the headland, we walked along Bellerive Beach toward Ninja Stadium, then walked around Victoria Esplanade to the Bellerive waterfront. Here we lost Gary, who had organised to have lunch at the Waterfront Hotel.

We checked out the boardwalk, then headed through the backstreets to find The Fish Bar at Bellerive Beach for a feed of fish & chips.

After lunch we headed back along the walking trail inside the dunes from the beach to provide a bit of variety in the walk. It was on this part of the walk that we saw a southern brown bandicoot, which is fairly common in this area. Unfortunately it was quite shy and didn't want to pose for a photo.

We continued back along the Foreshore Trail back to Howrah Road, said our goodbyes and went on our merry ways. All in all, a pleasant 3 hour walk (including lunch), not too strenuous and fine weather.