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

Brooklyn Dam

A steep climb up from Parsley Bay at Brooklyn 

Views across to Dangar Island

At the dam it had been drained to allow the dam wall to be redone. Not quite the tranquility I was expecting at the dam 

Views back down a gully to the Hawkesbury River Bridge at Kangaroo Point. 

Persoonia levis 

Bossiaea heterophylla 

Hibbertia obtusifolia 

Phebalium squamulosum 

Acacia oxycedrus 

Conospermum longifolium 

Acacia sauveolens 

Yellow-faced Honeyeater 

Grevillea sericea 

White-eared Honeyeater 

Eastern Spinebill 

Gompholobium latifolium 

Leucopogon micrpphyllus 

Boronia ledifolia 

Dampiera stricta 

Scarlet Honeyeater