Section W  click on thumbnail to see larger photo.        Back

This is a straightforward downstream walk, dryfooted except in times of high water- when you should stay out of narrow gorges! Some good pools, and you’ll probably see Rock Wallabies if you’re quiet.

Hot and tired after a hard day’s walk, catching the breath at Blue Mountain/ Hole Creek campsite

Tent up, clothes washed and drying

(Photo Martin Lang)

Green tent lawns sloping down to the junction pool

Feeling much better after a swim! (The pool can dry up almost completely after a long while without rain)

Crossing the broad flat on the northern side of the creek 500 metres below Blue Mountain/Hole Creek camp. We’re obviously heading into the morning sun!

(Photo Kathy King)

In good times, there’s a pool like this every few hundred metres in Blue Mountain Creek.

Fencing the gorge areas was too expensive for early settlers, so they found strategic narrow defiles where they could run a few wires across the creek and thus keep stock confined.

The dingo trap has hung here for years- a good landmark on the Eastern side of the creek. around Map Grid 956/959.

Australian Indigo Indigofera australis. The original indigo dye was made from Indigofera tinctoria , which was domesticated in India. Early Australian settlers were instructed to look for this plant- a possible alternative dye source.

The creek is entering a sharp bend to the East, and is very dry at this time- a dryfoot walk all day.

The Weeping Bottlebrush ( Callistemon viminalis) grows to about 8 X 8 metres, along watercourses. Stacks of them in the Macleay gorges. They have been extensively bred and cultivated throughout Australia and the world.

On the northern sides of the creek there is often thick growth of moss where the sun can’t get at it and dry it out.

Great pool, and the campsite opposite (to the right of the photo) is soft and shaded. Rock Wallabies are occasionally seen here.