Ebor Falls

The weather has been cool, showery and dull for a few days, but I cleared just enough today to make a trip to the New England National Park worthwhile. The park, which has magnificent scenery, is part of the Gondwana Rainforests of Australia World Heritage Area - a line of parks stretching perhaps 400km north-south East of Armidale. My department has invited Matthew Shumway from Utah to take up residence for 3 months and he willingly came along for the ride.

Alas, the summit was shrouded in cloud and it rained heavily at times, so we saw little of the scenery, but the hut proved a great place for our lovely picnic lunch. We decided to show Matthew the Ebor Falls instead and they proved spectacular after recent heavy rains. A substantial volume of water fell over the three-tiered structure shown in the photos.

And the walk around the rim of the gorge was both interesting and varied. To the north, the sun managed to shine through over the wilderness of Guy Fawkes River National Park - part of the Gondwana structure mentioned earlier. The following photo shows the heavily timbered area traversed by the winding trough gouged by the Guy Fawkes river. I can't imagine what that gentleman had to do with the Ebor area. Please enlighten me.

AS