Thursday, 1 February 2018

I Love Dangars Falls

We've had grandson Max staying with us for almost 3 weeks over the ACT School Holidays and, on one day, we took a trip to one of my favourite places in NSW, Dangars Falls in the World Heritage Listed Oxley Wild Rivers National Park. It lies about 20 km southeast of Armidale and is really spectacular. I love its long and sometimes challenging walks, but on the day in question we just went for a picnic lunch and to view the area around the falls themselves. Here's the young dude himself.




He's quite happy going off on his own these days and he found some rock-pools containing yabbies and fish. Alas he didn't have a net and was unable to supplement our lunch. Lack of a net was overcome yesterday and we made a large haul of yabbies locally.

I never tire of the surrounding gorge, river and waterfall. They're really beautiful, starting at the top of the massive falls with the water cascading over the edge.


The canyon walls are also attractive with their various rock formations, vegetation and occasional animals such as rock wallabies, and even wedge-tailed eagles.






And, across the lip of the gorge we have some attractive native vegetation.


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1 comment:

Laura said...

May I ask what yabbies are? It looks an awesome place to visit.