Growing up in Springwood, I had visited Long Angle Gully quite a few times when young, and camped at the junction of Fitzgeralds Creek with the scouts on one occasion. And I had been to Sun Valley as well, but never been down the fire road from Sun Valley to Long Angle Gully.
I had been in touch with Bob about a location for our usual weekly bushwalk. Nothing had been decided except that we could decide where to go on the way up the mountains. This “plan” has worked in the past, and it worked this time. Sun Valley had long been on my list of possible places to visit for a bushwalk, but with a low priority. It was thus saved up to visit on rainy day. Well, we now had a rainy day, so it seemed like its time had come. Continue reading
