Roger wanted to take his young son Jeremy out on an overnight bush walk. We considered a few suggestions and decided on walk in the Heathcote area to Kingdom Come.
We went by train to Waterfall and then walked along the Bullawarring Track to The Kingfisher Pool where we had a rest, and then kept going to the Goanna Track to the Pipeline and then the short distance to Kingdom Come. Continue reading
Christoph was visiting from Germany and was keen for a ride. The ride out along the Cooks River to Botany Bay and then to Kurnell and then back is an easy ride and quite scenic.
This was a great daywalk along a beautiful part of the foreshores of Sydney Harbour. It offers a mixture of walking situations – urban walking near Manly and at the other end near Milsons Point, coastal heath along sections of Sydney Harbour National Park, some tiny pockets of rainforest, some historic forts, wildflowers and wildlife in abundance.
Sydney Harbour
It is easy to find notes and maps for this walk online. The Walking Coastal Sydney website is particularly good. Continue reading
This article was originally published in “Rucksack Ramblings” – the official organ of the Rucksack Club, Sydney (volume 1 No 6) – published around 1952. I think it is as applicable now as it was then. Which type of walker are you? The author was Rupert Prellor. It has been re-published here without permission.
Walking Club Types
The newcomer to the club is often at a loss to gain the upper hand in conversation with other members because he has not had several years in which to make an impressive list of mountain ascents. He has not yet had the experience in the skilful embellishment of the truth that so distinguishes the conversation of the better known members of the Club. If he can recognise the many diverse and interesting types of people that make up the Club, then he can discern the opponent’s weakness and lead the conversation gradually into the path that he himself thinks it ought to go. Continue reading
With a lot of national parks close to Sydney closed due to bushfires there were not a lot of options left for a day in the bush. One place I had never walked was the coast near La Perouse. I was joined on the walk by Chuin Nee and little Jasper.
The walk starts off through some attractive forest as it makes it way to Henry Head. This headland has some interesting old fortifications – some slowly being smothered by scrub. Continue reading
Thursday October 17th was a terrible day for bushfires in the Blue Mountains. It was very warm, very windy and very dry. Several large bushfires broke out in parts of the Blue Mountains and spread very quickly.
In Sydney, we could not help seeing a huge plume of smoke spreading to the east from the mountains. Continue reading
It was forecast to be a very hot day. It would be nice to get out into the bush. Rik and myself thought that a trip down into Glenbrook Gorge would be suitable. It would also allow Wendy to come along too. She has been recuperating from an injury.
We walked the short distance from the Glenbrook entrance to the Blue Mountains National Park to the start of the Gorge and then continued through it looking for a nice pool to have lunch by and have a swim. Continue reading
Rik and myself went on a quick trip through the beautiful Dalpura Canyon. The canyon was nice as usual but the real purpose of our visit was to see the wildflowers on the ridge out. October is a good month for this.
Instead of climbing out the regular way – via the ridge to the west of the creek – we chose to climb out onto Dalpura Head to the east of the creek. This was a good choice. The ridge is very spectacular and the way out was about as easy as the other more common exit ridge.
This exit also gave us a chance to walk around the massive Dalpura Cliffs and to see from above the Lost Pillar – an amazing and very spectacular detached pinnacle that is naturally of interest to rock climbers. Continue reading
Its been a tradition for 40 years now for the SUBW president to lead a party of bushwalkers to the beautiful and wild Kowmung River on the October Long Weekend.
Three days is a good time to spend on the river and October is a good time of the year to be there. The three day time period allows for one to walk in and one day to walk out and then the middle day to be spent walking along the river. And October? Often (but not always) good weather, often the weather is warm enough for swimming in the river, and post winter – the grassy banks are at their finest. Continue reading
I recently spent two days walking along the northern part of the Coastal Track in Royal National Park. This was a photographic trip.
There are many great subjects for the camera. The wildflowers of course. The rock platforms, the heath, the creeks, the birds and lizards. The beaches and dunes, the cliffs. Continue reading
