A great sunny day, light breeze, temperature just nudging 20, so time for a walk up View Hill.
The picture left shows the view from the car park – looking back towards Oxford and over the Canterbury Plains.
From the car park, the path is an access track, well formed, a few loose stones, a couple of ruts, but easy walking. A gate around 500 metres in marks the true start of the walk.
After another kilometre or so, we took a path to the right to head to Ryde Falls. This track is moderately well formed, but has some areas of slippage and steep sections. Not having walked for quite some time, I found a couple of sections quite hard, but as I walked further, my body became used to the effort.
Just before the falls, you must cross Coopers Creek, it is quite shallow and has a small rock dam that can be negotiated with care.
