Narrabeen Lake Track (via Jamieson Park)

For our walk this week we chose Narrabeen Lake track. Starting at Berry Reserve Narrabeen we headed south, going through Wheeler Park, then Jamieson Park and then to the end of the track at Wheeler Heights, then back to our breakfast stop at Narrabeen. The  track will eventually go all the way around the lake and meet up with the newly constructed track at Middle Creek.......well that's Council's plan...........hope we are still blogging our walks by then........we might be needing zimmer frames for walking assistance though!!

This was one of the very few beautiful, sunny Sunday mornings we have had in Sydney all summer and it was stunning. The lake was glistening; the birds were singing; the kayakers were out paddling; and the stand up paddle board lesson was in session. It is an easy flat walk all the way, at first on pavement then on bush track. One problem was that because of all the recent rain the track was pretty muddy and slushy in parts.....but we expected that so thats no big deal. The real problem was that half of Narrabeen was also there so it became rather busy. There were a lot of walkers and a lot of  push bikers all out to enjoy the great morning. Because the track is rather narrow in parts you have to pull over to the side to let the push bikers pass. Usually we are pretty relaxed about these things but did tire of it after a while.  Shaz, what was that you said about bike bells and bottoms??? Though, with that said it was still a great morning walk and we would do it again. Perhaps it best to hit this track before 7am.

H20 Cafe Narrabeen

We were so looking forward to our breakfast here, the cafe is always full, the food looks great and the setting is fabulous. We had tried to eat here one Sunday morning a few months back but there were no tables left. This time we booked first just to make sure! The menu was great, really interesting dishes that were a bit different from most breakfast menus. That of course meant that it was difficult to choose!!! The pancake stacks and the smoothies looked awesome, but we both went with the corn cakes with rocket, mushrooms and poached eggs. Unfortunately we were sadly disappointed. The presentation was great but the corn cakes were dry, my egg was over cooked and the mushrooms were, to put it politely...yuk! On the positive side, the coffee was good.

Our Reviews
Narrabeen Lake Track (via Jamieson Park)
difficulty:                       easy
distance:                       6km return
parking:                         Berry Reserve car park
worth doing:                 yes but go early to avoid bikes
dog friendly                   on leash only

water and toilets available along the way at Wheeler Park, the Sailing Club and Berry Reserve.

H20 Cafe
food:                                 looked great but tasted average
service:                           good
ambience                        great
would we go again        yes....we would love to try other dishes on menu