A nice walk with bushwalking friends and lots of children. Tara had organised a BBQ at her place at Springwood and after it, on the Sunday, a lot of us went for a walk heading out from White Cross Road at Winmalee along Shaws Ridge and back along Blue Gum Swamp Creek.
There are lots of beautiful trees in Blue Gum Swamp Creek – and as the name says there are a lot of Blue Gums. In this case Eucalyptus Deanei – “Deanes Blue Gum” rather than the Sydney Blue Gum (E Saligna).
The walk is a short loop – about 8kms in length and is popular with locals and mountain bikers. After recent rain – a lot of the walk along the swamp was quite wet underfoot and there were a few leeches around. All the walk is in Blue Mountains National Park.
A lot of Blue Gums. It’s a good place!
Perfect bush walks, expecially the outcrops of hanging rocks at the
Grotto.