A Day Out

Out with friends to walk on the Meryla Plateau with views down to Kangaroo Valley but forgot that most of Morton National Park is still closed from the fires 2 years ago. A nice cuppa coffee and a rethink and then a series of short stops still made for a nice day out.

Sun Orchids at the top of Meryla Pass at the start of the aborted walk.

Then off to Manning Lookout at the top of Barrengarry Mountain.

Lunch at Belmore Falls

Banksia serrata

Wonderland Falls

Then on to a lovely display of waratahs at Robertson.

 

West Rim Track

Another stop on the way up to Bundanoon.  The West Rim track at Fitzroy Falls in Morton National Park.  A short 4.4klm return to 5 lookouts on the west rim of the Yurrunga Creek escarpment.

I always thought Fitzroy Falls was on Yurrunga Creek but I've just noticed its on Wildes Meadow Creek  and Yurrunga Creek comes in at Twin Falls.

The water falls. 

Glossy-black Cockatoos

Lower Falls

Hakea

Isopogon

Olearia

Comesperma

Hell Hole Falls

A short 1.2klm walk in Parma Creek Nature Reserve to Hell Hole Falls.

Parma Creek Nature Reserve is off  Turpentine Rd south of Nowra. The creek is a tributary of Currembene Creek which runs down to Jervis Bay at Huskisson.

Looking out from behind the falls.

The track down crosses over the creek above the falls.

Nice. I believe there may be more falls downstream.