Governors Bush Walk

This is a one hour return bushwalk.

Start at the Public Shelter.

This walk gives you an idea of the forest which used to cover the foothills; it’s hard to credit that sheep once grazed the slopes of Mt Sebastopol after early runholders burnt the forests. Fortunately, an early Governor, Sir George Bowen, impressed by its great beauty, requested that this stand of bush be protected. The track climbs steadily through silver beech forest to a lookout.

You descend through beech, totara and ribbonwood to Black Birch fan and from there you take the footpath alongside a lovely little stream back to the Shelter.