Sunday 22
December 2019 – 280 355
After a slow
start this morning, we drove to the Cumberland Range Trail Head and continued
to the 4WD carpark. From here we hiked
to the top of Big Talbingo Mountain. The
views from the top on a clear day would be incredible. Through the smoke (which is currently
covering the entire Eastern seaboard of Australia) we could make out boats on
Talbingo Reservoir. There is a fire
tower and weather station, amongst other things, at the top, where a NPWS
ranger watches for fires in the forestry on the opposite shore of Talbingo
Reservoir. We then hiked to a lookout
that views Landers Falls – this is only a narrow stream of water but has an
incredibly long drop.
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| Landers Falls |
After a
picnic lunch we headed partway along Lob’s Hole Ravine Road to the Jounama
Heritage Walk. This took us to the sites
of three homesteads, none of which had anything significant remaining. We then drove to the Old Jounama Homestead
Site – which has been lovingly looked after, with several walls and chimneys
remaining and the garden plants carefully labelled.
Then back for
a relaxing swim in Jounama Creek to finish the day.
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