Fisher

Walk Features: This loop walk takes you from the Shops through the streets, parkland and playgrounds. Some of the walk is on a dirt track.

Duration of the walk: About 1 hour and 35 minutes.

Region: Weston Creek.

Information about the Suburb: Fisher was established in 1970 and named after Andrew Fisher (1862–1928), coal miner, founding member of the federal parliamentary Labor Party and Prime Minister of Australia for three terms between 1908 and 1915. Its streets are named after Australian mines and mining towns.

Walk Directions

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To get to the start of the walk proceed west out along Hindmarsh Dr. Turn L into Namatjira Dr, L into Badimara St, R into Kalgoorlie Cr. L Fisher Sq and park at the Shops.

Note that streets in brackets means there is no street sign at this point of the walk.

  1. Go out onto Fisher Sq.
  2. Go L onto Kalgoorlie Cr.
  3. Pass Ballarat St on your R.
  4. Pass a bus stop.
  5. Go R on a concrete path between houses.
  6. Go L onto (Clermont St).
  7. Pass Tingha Pl and then Chillagoe St on your R.
  8. Go R onto Kambalda Cr.
  9. Go L on a concrete path.
  10. Take the L fork on a concrete path behind houses.
  11. Go R on a concrete path.
  12. Pass a playground on your L.
  13. Take the R fork on a concrete path.
  14. Go R onto Pandanus St.
  15. Go R onto Cobar Pl and veer to your L.
  16. Go L on a concrete path.
  17. Go R onto (Ardlethan St).
  18. Pass a red gate on your R.
  19. Go R into a small cul de sac.
  20. Go R on a concrete path.
  21. Go R on a concrete path at a Fisher sign.
  22. Go R on a bitumen path and continue along for quite some time.
  23. Pass a concrete path to your R and then veer R on a dirt track through a gate and follow it behind houses on your R for quite some way.
  24. Take the L fork on a dirt track uphill keeping the houses on your R.
  25. Take the R fork on a dirt track keeping close to the houses.
  26. Go R onto (Namatjira Dr) and follow on a concrete path.
  27. Go R on a concrete path and up through a reserve.
  28. Cross over (Ballarat St).
  29. Pass (Hamersley Pl) on your L.
  30. Pass a playground on R and continue downhill on a dirt track.
  31. Go L down Rosebery St.
  32. Pass a concrete path on your L.
  33. After number 20 go L on a concrete path behind houses on your L.
  34. Pass (Pilbara Pl) on your R.
  35. Go L onto (Kalgoorlie Cr).
  36. Pass Araluen St on your R.
  37. Go L onto Eleanora St.
  38. Pass Yambi Pl on your L.
  39. Go L onto Kapunda St.
  40. Pass Andamooka St on your R and Hamersley Pl on your L.
  41. Go R onto Andamooka St.
  42. Go L on a concrete path between boulders.
  43. Go R on a concrete path and down through a reserve and between houses.
  44. Go R onto (Greenvale St).
  45. Go L onto Bendigo St.
  46. Go R onto Capel Pl.
  47. Proceed out from its end on a dirt track and pass a playground on your R.
  48. Go L onto (Kalgoorlie Cr).
  49. Pass a bus stop and shelter.
  50. Go R onto Mareeba St
  51. Go L onto Rossarden St.
  52. Pass Nanine Pl on your R.
  53. Go L on a concrete path with reserve on your R.
  54. Go R on a concrete path at a bus shelter and alongside (Badimara St) on your L.
  55. Go R on a concrete path before iron railing bridge.
  56. Go R on a concrete path and follow it through a reserve leaving the underpass behind you.
  57. Pass a playground away over to your R.
  58. Follow a concrete path all the way through the reserve and back to the Shops on your R.