Martin had organised this walk for UTS Outdoor Adventure Club and had invited me to join him. Andres was also on the walk. He had planned to go for three days along the divide between the Wolgan and Capertee Valleys.
We parked at the Donkey Mountain car park on the Newnes Road. Instead of using the style to cross and fence and head up to Donkey Mountain, we went the other way. Crossing a small creek and climbing up onto the top to the north. Continue reading
This was a two and half day walk. I arrived at Katoomba at 2pm and walked out to Narrow Neck. It took about an hour to walk out to the barrier and then about another 40 minutes to walk out to Castle Head.
The turn off track leaves the Narrow Neck fire trail about 1km from the barrier. It is the third turn off to the left. The first is a track marked by a duck (cairn) that goes to a nearby lookout. The second turn-off is an old road that goes a short way up a hill and is blocked by metal posts. The third turn off, the one to Castle Head, the one to take, is marked by a couple of wooden posts. Continue reading
It had been raining for a couple of weeks and the creeks were up. A good time to visit some waterfalls. As I left home, it was raining and the same on my return, but up in the mountains it was a fairly fine day – with even a little sun!
After a visit to the Lawson Cake Shop, I headed down Honour Avenue to the track to Adelina Falls. The falls are only a few minutes from the road. There was plenty of water going over the falls and it was time to pull out the camera. Winter is a bit of a gloomy time – and the light was a bit restricted. Continue reading
Time to record some of a conversation I had with an interesting old gentleman that I met in Glenbrook back in the late 1970’s. At the time, I had been going around a variety of different groups and organisations showing a slide show of the scenic features of the Northern Blue Mountains as apart of a campaign to have the region declared a national park.
I’m not exactly sure who the group was in Glenbrook, but they seemed to enjoy the slides and appreciate the issues. I was having a cup of tea and chatting with people when I was introduced to a “Major Collit”. A quite old gentlemen. He had an old photo album with him and then proceeded to tell me about some of his adventures back in the 1920’s.
He had been in a party that had gone into the Colo Gorge back in about 1928 and set up a camp in a large cave on the River. I think they had reached the river from Mountain Lagoon. As well as carrying in a lot of food, they had also taken in a lot of old rectangular metal drums. At their cave base, they then proceeded to turn the drums into kayaks by cutting them up and then soldering them together. From the photos – it looked like the soldering irons were simply heated on a big fire. Continue reading
This was a pleasant walk from Waterfall to Heathcote via easy tracks and fire trails. On the way I visited Uloola Falls and Karloo Pool.
My walk started at Waterfall Station following a track (mainly fire trail) to Uloola Falls. At the falls is a campsite that is nothing special – it looks a bit worn out. I wonder if it is used much? The falls themselves are quite impressive. The creek tumbles over in a series of drops. It is possible to climb down to the bottom on either side of the falls. I tried to find some good places for photographs. Continue reading
Three days in great country. A good place to enjoy the long weekend.
The tops between the Wolgan and Capertee Valleys are a spectacular bushwalking destination. The Blue Rocks – The Red Rocks – The Mount Morgan Plateau. Each part is very good. Each part is extremely rugged and spectacular. Each part is different – and each part is reasonable accessible.
Vivid was back again and bigger and better than ever. I only had time for one visit this year. There were lots of people enjoying the sights and also lots of people with cameras and tripods.
Here are a few of my photos –
The Opera House is the main focus, but there are plenty of other things to see. I think there are 60 exhibits in all. If you want to visit Vivid – then you had better be quick – I think it ends on the night of Monday 10th June. Continue reading
A wet weekend was forecast – but we had three birthdays to celebrate. Jasper was about to turn one. It was also major birthdays for Digi Dave and Gab, as well as Rik’s birthday. So we thought a good place for a party in the bush would be the campsite at the head of the Dry Canyon.
This turned out to be a good plan. We did have a fair bit of rain – but most of it fell on Saturday night. With a lot of fine food and drink to share, and great company, we had a very pleasant evening.
Back to the Upper Grose. My aim was to get more photos of Blue Gum Forest – hopefully with some nice post rain atmosphere. The conditions I had hoped for did not eventuate, but a walk down a section of the Grose River is always good.
I set off from Mt Victoria and walked out to Victoria Falls Lookout and then down to the Falls. Bright sunshine – difficult conditions to get good photos – but some off the cascades below the falls were is shade – so that provided a few photographic possibilities. Continue reading
A cold weekend up the mountains. An icy wind was blowing from the south west. It was chilling! I had travelled up to the Blue Mountains with John, Chuin Nee and their baby, Jasper. I had convinced them that Hanging Rock on Burramoko Head at Blackheath would be a great place to take photographs. The light would be best at dusk and at dawn – so it would be necessary to camp at the nearby Baltzer Lookout.
