Another hot day was forecast, and I accepted an invitation to join friends for a walk from Heathcote to Kangaroo Creek in Royal National Park. In the part were Su Li, Brent, Steffy, Martin, Chuin Nee, John, Jasper, Sebastian and myself.
The Karloo Pool
We walked down to the Karloo Pool. I had been this way about four weeks earlier and had seen quite a few orchids out. This trip I found none.
At the Karloo Pool – we stopped for a fair while and enjoy swimming in it very clean, clear water. There were lots of other visitors – I think I counted around 5o people (including our party).
After lunch and sombre more swimming, we walk downstream along a rough track. We passed more swimming holes and stopped to swim in one not far before there was a track out back to Heathcote which we planned to take. None of these pools were as good as the Karloo Pool, and we also ended up taking out some rubbish left by others – bottles and plastic.
The track out led to the Bottle Forest and from there it was a short walk back to Heathcote.
More photos from this walk are online on my website here.
Hi do you know the exact address to get to the kangaroo creek waterfall ?
I think you may mean the waterfall (or waterfalls) a long way upstream near Waterfall. Look at the bushwalking.com forum – I think there may have been some discussion about this
So can you walk downstream and pick up the bottle forest trail? I have always thought that trail ended at a lookout, and didn’t meet the kangaroo creek? The next closest is engadine track but surely that’s a couple of hours from karloo pool?
Yes – there is a track on the true left bank below the Karloo Pool. I have only followed it to the Bottle Forest Track. I am not sure how hard it is to continue to the downstream Engadine track. The Bottle Forest track goes all the way to the creek. And the track is marked along the creek on Open Street Maps – but only as far as the Bottle Forest Trail. But I expect it continues downstream. A lot of tracks have not yet been added to Open Street Maps.