Gibralter NP

[GrahamL]

Knocking in the last tent peg just before some of the heaviest rain to fall in the area in years is pretty sweet timing. :)

Though as the ranger commented the next day not many get to ever see the park like this .. and you know leeches aside , leaking tent, I'd have to agree.

The trickle that usaully runs down little dandahar creek is a
thunderous roar that can still be he heard in the tent over the rain and thunder.

last pic is the footbridge over to the eastern walking tracks

[Liz]

Looks like a great camping spot, despite leaky tents ;)
great pics, and no 1 is beautiful :thumbsup:

[bloodhound31]

That's some megalitres of waterflow alright. Yep, I like the first one too.

Baz.

[GrahamL]

The terrain is full of contrasts, the rugged granite country changes in a second as you walk into some small patchs of rainforest.

[GrahamL]

We went for a walk down to Dandahar creek falls , national parks have
stopped maintaining the track to this one and have removed it from a lot of the guide maps as I guess its a fairly dangerous track and now quite hard to follow in parts, you basically go straight down the side of a gorge 180 m or so to reach the cascades above the falls , then thread your way through a maze of (normally empty) rapids to get to to get to the top of the falls.

fantastic place you feel so all alone in the world sitting here .

The heavy rain approaching from the east had us start back pretty quick, no way you'd want to be here when another couple of inches of rain comes down the creek or be scratching your way back up the side of the gorge ..

drop to bottom 240 mts

[Octane]

nightstalker,

This looks like a place I'll have to put on to my must visit lists. Looks beautiful.

Thanks for sharing.

H

[GrahamL]

Thanks for the kind comments all :)

Humayun yes its a great place not a long drive inland from grafton
You would have to consider booking,imo, a white water rafting trip on the Nymboida river when coming up here as its fairly close.. its where all this water is heading actually.

oh I forgot .. heres the wrongest wallaby I've come across .. he would scrounge in all the fireplace digging out festy old grease ridden charcole coated sausages and whatever to eat..I never feed the animals at parks but made an exception here and tried to get him eating some fruit at least ..nope had a try and spat it out and back to the sausage..all his friends were eating grass and proper wallaby stuff ..except for this one .

[lacad01]

Gibralter NP is a beautiful place, was up there a few years ago. Fantastic shot of the hut :thumbsup:

[mithrandir]

It's spelt Gibraltar. Excerpts from Coombadjha 9339-II-S. (Must get the newer set of LPI maps.)

Is the "Hanging Rock" in the NE corner of the second clip the one from the movie?

[lacad01]

Think that one is in Victoria

[Wavytone]

Ye the "Hanging Rock" of movie fame is in Vic, near the Grampians.