How are tracks designed and created? I often wonder. We’re walking the Great South West Walk, home to the Gunditjmara people. A plaque explains the creation of the walking track. Opened on 13th November 1983, the GSWW “was planned and constructed by students and staff of Portland High School, members of Portland community groups, and officers of the Portland Shire, National Parks Service, Forest Commission Victoria and the Department of Crown Lands and Survey”. An amazing collaboration. The two hundred-kilometre track winds through a variety of landscapes: Woorowarook Mirring (forest country), the waters of the Pareetj Mirring (freshwater country), the Bocara Woorowarook Mirring (forest river country) to the Nyamat Mirring (sea country).
