The following walk reports may include locations subject to restricted access. It may not be open to the public and you would not be authorised to visit the location without approval of the landowner. Our walking groups obtain permission where required for these walks.
A cool morning when we all met at the Numinbah Valley Hall before the final car-pool to the Qld/NSW border where we would start. The walk from the road up along the border was rather steep but easily manageable as the track had recently been cleared by weed poisoning. It was dry and windy but we were protected from the prevailing wind by trees and shrubs along the border.
Before arriving at the cliff face which marks the start of Bushrangers Cave we re-found a strange rock that Julie had found on our earlier recce visit. This rock is unlike anything in the vicinity so Julie will enjoy some investigative work finding out what it is and how it got where it was found. Our arrival at the "entrance" to Bushrangers Cave saw us completely protected from the wind. A nice respite.
We enjoyed a long smoko and afterwards did dome exploration to try and find some rock pools which were supposedly in the creek below the waterfall above Bushrangers Cave. We were unable to locate them on this exploration so decided we would walk directly down below the waterfall on a further visit. The walk back down from Bushrangers Cave was uneventful except for so very heavy mist which was rolling above us and some slight rain as we got back near the cars.
We decided to have lunch at a park nearby before heading off to Natural Bridge to fill out the rest of the day. The walk around the Natural Bridge track is less than 2k so we stopped for a long time admiring the geology which created this natural arch and waterfall. A large log had fallen into the cavern but this did not detract from the beauty of the waterfall curtain.
We managed to make it back to the cafe close to the Numinbah Valley Hall before it closed and enjoyed refreshments on the verandah. A great day - Colin
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Why does attentiveness to nature matter? In a very fundamental sense, we are what we pay attention to. Paying heed to beauty, grace, and everyday miracles promotes a sense of possibility and coherence that runs deeper and truer than the often illusory commercial, social "realities" advanced by mainstream contemporary culture. ... Our attention is precious, and what we choose to focus it on has enormous consequences. What we choose to look at, and to listen to--these choices change the world. As Thich Nhat Hanh has pointed out, we become the bad television programs that we watch. A society that expends its energies tracking the latest doings of the celebrity couple is fundamentally distinct from one that watches for the first arriving spring migrant birds, or takes a weekend to check out insects in a mountain stream, or looks inside flowers to admire the marvelous ingenuities involved in pollination. The former tends to drag culture down to its lowest commonalities; the latter can lift us up in a sense of unity with all life. The Way of Natural History, edited by Thomas Lowe Fleischner and published by Trinity University Press (Texas)