This year the Friends tackled the area of Bendigo Creek, the Bendigo Creek Trail, and a short section of the O’Keefe Rail Trail. Forty-one people, including members of Northern Bendigo Landcare, got together with gloves [...]
As well as extending the trail, the City of Greater Bendigo has also been upgrading the existing trail surface, to repair the likes of stormwater damage hazards etc. Lately, they’ve been working in Bendigo East [...]
Way back in January, the Friends and Mitchell BUG prepared a submission to the Mitchell Shire Council recommending that it include plans for a new Wandong to Heathcote Rail Trail in its council plan for [...]
As far as we know, there was only one mile post still standing when the works on the trail extension began. Number 96 had weathered the winds of change, but was looking a bit tired [...]
In January, the O’Keefe Rail Trail played host to Captain Walksalot and the Blister Sisters - four nurses from Bendigo Health who are training for the Oxfam Trailwalker in April. The 100 km walk over [...]
There's not a great deal of all the stations that used to dot the railway line. You'd have been hard pressed to even know where most of the stations were - until now. A long-term [...]
Ever visited a trail in the Hume region? Twelve councils, Hume Regional Development Australia and the Victorian Government are working on a trails strategy for the region. It's looking at developing exsiting trails and the [...]
A small group set off from Lake Weroona last Sunday on a festive ride to Axedale for lunch. With those who met us out there, we have nine at Axedale Tavern for lunch. The food [...]
It's all go in Heathcote at the moment. The council's contractors are busy with the town section of the trail, and the Friends are preparing old station sites for their new signs. Trail blazing: [...]
While the contractors build the path, our very own historical recreation wizard, Ken Hanson, is busy repairing a wooden culvert that had partly collapsed. The structure is opposite Bald Hill and its previous mine workings, [...]