January is almost over and Max heads home to Canberra tomorrow, via Sydney. We haven't travelled the region as much as we hoped because of the wet and stormy weather over the last two weeks or so, which dumped almost 120 mm of rain (or almost 5 inches).
However, yesterday's weather was glorious and we headed east to Wollomombi Falls to see the work of all the rain - hopefully a mass of water plunging over the falls. And so it proved. Here's Max and me at the main viewing platform and the view that we saw. Wollomombi falls are on the left and Chandler falls are on the right, with both merging at the foot of the gorge way below. Max is proudly wearing one of his two Nerf guns together with a new gift from us of a shoulder strap and bullet cartridges (!) The bullets are made of soft foam and are not supposed to damage objects or people targeted. He was under strict instructions not to fire in a National Park and he knows how to treat animals well. The area you see is more of the World Heritage Listed Oxley - Wild Rivers National Park shown in a recent post.
Since it was a clear day with relatively low humidity we had brilliant views over the surrounding countryside out to Round Mountain in the distance shown in the next rather grainy picture. The range you see marks the edge of the New England plateau, which plunges in an escarpment to the coastal plains beyond. Round Mountain is 1586 m high (c. 5150 feet). So the tablelands actually rise about 600 m (or nearly 2000 feet) as one travels east towards the coast from Armidale.
The Wollomombi river itself travels through a deep gorge (shown above) on its way to join the Macleay River and on to the Pacific Ocean near Kempsey. It's possible to walk along the bottom of the gorge and there are signposted tracks to take you there, but it's a long steep climb coming back and I've only done the journey about 3 times.
AS
However, yesterday's weather was glorious and we headed east to Wollomombi Falls to see the work of all the rain - hopefully a mass of water plunging over the falls. And so it proved. Here's Max and me at the main viewing platform and the view that we saw. Wollomombi falls are on the left and Chandler falls are on the right, with both merging at the foot of the gorge way below. Max is proudly wearing one of his two Nerf guns together with a new gift from us of a shoulder strap and bullet cartridges (!) The bullets are made of soft foam and are not supposed to damage objects or people targeted. He was under strict instructions not to fire in a National Park and he knows how to treat animals well. The area you see is more of the World Heritage Listed Oxley - Wild Rivers National Park shown in a recent post.
Since it was a clear day with relatively low humidity we had brilliant views over the surrounding countryside out to Round Mountain in the distance shown in the next rather grainy picture. The range you see marks the edge of the New England plateau, which plunges in an escarpment to the coastal plains beyond. Round Mountain is 1586 m high (c. 5150 feet). So the tablelands actually rise about 600 m (or nearly 2000 feet) as one travels east towards the coast from Armidale.
The Wollomombi river itself travels through a deep gorge (shown above) on its way to join the Macleay River and on to the Pacific Ocean near Kempsey. It's possible to walk along the bottom of the gorge and there are signposted tracks to take you there, but it's a long steep climb coming back and I've only done the journey about 3 times.
AS
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Great scenery. Richard.
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