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

Hot and tired after a hard day’s walk? Catch your 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 dry spell rain.

Crossing the broad flat on the N side of the creek 500 m below Blue Mountain/Hole Creek camp. We are obviously heading into the morning sun!(Photo Kathy King)

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

Fencing the gorge areas was too expensive for early settlers. 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 E side of the creek. (AG66 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 as a possible alternative dye source.

The creek is entering a sharp bend to the E. It is very dry in this photo. A dryfoot walk all day.

The Weeping Bottlebrush (Callistemon viminalis) grows to about 8 x 8 m, along watercourses. Very common in the Macleay gorges. They have been extensively bred and cultivated throughout Australia and the world.

On the N sides of the creek there is often a thick growth of moss where the sun cannot dry it out.

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