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Boyd River Camping

Posted on September 4, 2015 by Jo — 4 Comments ↓

It had somehow been ten years since I’d visited Kanangra. Many of those years I was living interstate, but now that we’re only two hours’ drive away it seemed like a visit was well overdue. Joel’s birthday straddles the end of winter and the beginning of spring, and has become a traditional camping weekend. It’s a good time of year to dust off the camping gear and head for the bush as the weather warms up. This year we decided to stay overnight at Boyd River Campground. We headed off on Continue Reading →

McMahon’s Lookout

Posted on June 20, 2015 by Jo — Leave a reply

We were going a bit stir-crazy at home, so I bundled the kids in the car and we headed out to McMahon’s Point for a short walk and a picnic. This spot is out on Kings Tableland, about 20km past the old Queen Victoria hospital. From the carpark it is an easy 800m walk through damp fern forests to the lookout, where there are panoramic views into the Kanangra-Boyd Wilderness Area and out over Lake Burragorang. We ate our homemade sushi while perched on a rock, soaking up the winter Continue Reading →

Bushrangers Cave revisited

Posted on May 24, 2015 by Jo — Leave a reply

It was only last week that I explored Little Zig Zag and Reinits Pass for the first time, but I was keen to come back with the kids to show them the Bushrangers Cave. In the spirit of adventure, we invited some other young friends to join our little expedition. We lunched in sunshine at Pulpit Rock before setting off down the zig-zagging track below. After an odd encounter with a group of clients from a local guiding company who had somehow lost their leader, we reached the cavernous entrance to the cave, donned headtorches, Continue Reading →

National Pass

Posted on May 12, 2015 by Jo — Leave a reply

I love walking alone, but I also love being able to share beautiful places with others. And today I was super excited to share one of my favourite walks with my son, Alex. I have rarely had the opportunity to walk with him alone, so it was a lovely treat to venture out together, just the two of us. We started from the Wentworth Falls Picnic Area and decided to head across to the Conservation Hut first ‘to get the boring bit out of the way’, but even before we’d reached Continue Reading →