Mudgee part 3

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Friday 1/11/2013

Had a fabulous day today. First we drove to Munghorn Gap Nature Reserve and did the walk into Castle Rock, it was a nice easy 8km return walk thru open bush to an area of Sandstone Pagoda Formations

They were amazing, looked a lot like I imagine ruins in China might look like and the views from the top were spectacular.

-->From there we drove to the Hands on Rock an area of Aboriginal Art.

The site features examples silhouette painting mostly hands sadly time and exposure are taking a toll and the art work is very faint and hard to decipher.

Then it was onward and upward to The Drip and a late lunch before another walk. 

This time the walk was through a gorge and once again the rocks were spectacular, the track followed the edge of a river getting narrower as we went until we reached and area where the rocks joined together with a large rock overhang with water dripping down hence the name The Drip

It was full of lush ferns and was beautiful and cool, it reminded me a little of the sinkholes in Mt Gambier.

Fred in his wisdom suggested we take our shoes off and walk back thru the water instead of following the track and me in my stupidity agreed, it was fine for Fred he goes barefoot most of the time and has tough feet me on the other hand rarely go barefoot so have soft and tender feet. Needless to say by the time we got back to the truck I had very sore little tootsies.

We saw 2 Redbelly Black snakes while we were walking, first one was on the opposite side of the creek sunning itself but the 2nd one gave us a small scare Fred must have disturbed it as he walked past and it came slithering towards me, I stood stock still and it turned and crawled away from me but it did put the wind up us.

Worked out we walked 12 kms in total today.