Grandad’s walk-in site – South Cudlee Creek

Facilities

Bush campsite, fire pit, stone table, small shelter (complete with logbook), rainwater tank, large flat camping area up from the fire pit.

History of the site, as written in the logbook

Cornelius (Kees) Geytenbeek was a post-war Dutch migrant who occupied the adjacent property from 1970 to 1999. A horticultural expert and philanthropist, he grew to love his adopted country and gained an appreciation of the Australian bush, its landformand eucalypts, planting a broad variety of species within the valley, vigorously persuing the managament of introduced weeds and shaping the lower valley into a park-like property. He endured the tragic suicide of his eldest son, aged 22, not far from here, but never emotionally recovered. he and his 2 year old grandson would walk to the culvert below here and share the simple pleasure of throwing rocks into the creek – one of the few experiences they would share before Grandad’s death to cancer in 1999, aged 65. The boy later recalled the special place as "Grandams Bridge".