The promise of fine weather enticed nine chatty walkers out to West Head for a walk amended due to track closure. We started by heading to the West Head lookout via Red Hands Cave, spotting a wallaby on the way. 
Wendy C delivering the pre walk briefing
Track to Red Hands Cave Where's Wall(ab)y?
Red Hands Cave Red Hand - Aboriginal Rock Art
After taking in the view of where many walker had been the previous Friday, we followed the coast through some lovely forest, passing some secluded beaches and an old (WWII?) lookout post Great Mackerel Beach where we had morning tea and an encounter with a spider which had travelled on a hat.
Wonderful views from West Head Lookout ....the walkers are obviously enjoying the views too!
Serene Resolute Beach with view out to Barrenjoey Peninsular and Lighthouse
WW11 Gun Emplacement on the track to Great Mackerel Beach. Is that Hazel on the lookout! 
Track to Great Mackerel Beach Hitch hiker found on Wendy C's hat!!! A relaxing morning tea
The return trip took us up a lot of steps to a board fire trail. We stopped to look at some aboriginal engravings on a rock platform, and back at the car park we found a man with a bag full of aboriginal artefacts (both new and old) who was very happy to have a chat. 
Interpretive sign with descriptions Rock platform where the Aboriginal Art was located
Aboriginal Rock Carving Site - looking over Pittwater and onto Barrenjoey Peninsular
Aboriginal engraving of a male human figure without a neck as well as possibly a spherical-headed club
A bag of Boomerangs
Friendly owner/maker of Indigenous Artefacts
Painting in the Red Hand Cave.....we learnt that a right hand is male and a left is female and where there is some arm it is from an older person. Maybe something of interest for HVB? (Ed)
....and from Indigenous Rock Art to Nature's Art
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(1) Sundew Drosera spathulata (2) Fuschia heath Epacris longiflora (3) Grey Spider Flower Grevillea buxifolia (4) Lobelia Lobelia dentata (5) NSW Coral Heath Epacris pulchella
(6) Large Leaf Bush Pea Pultenaea daphnoides (7) Darwinia fasicularis (8) Lesser Flannel Flower Actinotus minor (9) Fringed Violet or Lily Thysanotus tuberosus
(10) Scribbly Gum Eucalyptus haemastoma These zig-zag tracks or 'scribbles' are made by the moth grub as it tunnels between the old and the new bark. How many shapes can you make out of these scribbles? (Sue S)
We then drove to the beginning of the Salvation Loop and headed out on the Wallaroo Track, through some lovely forest and taking in glimpses of forested hills rolling away into the distance. Lunch was on a rock platform with views over Cowan Creek. The clouds had rolled in for this second walk, but the rain held off as we retraced our steps to the cars.
The clouds had rolled in for this second walk, but the rain held off as we retraced our steps to the cars. Coffee was enjoyed in the park at Terrey Hills.
Wendy C and Hazel led Barbara C, Polly, Celia, Kas, Steve, Deidre and Sue S - First Aider: Polly Tail End Charlie: Deidre
Words by Wendy C
Photos by Barbara C (1, 18, 24, 29), Hazel (2, 5, 6, 8, 19, 23, 31), Wendy C (3, 7, 12-14, 17, 21, 33, 34), Sue S (4, 10, 11, 16, 20, 25-28, 30, 32),
Deidre (9, 15, 22) All flower identification by photographers