river walk, from Boonoo Boonoo falls through to Harrigans Lane, where it fords the river.
I did the Harrigans lane to Rocky Island section a few months ago, in cold, wet conditions....now it was time to join up the dots.
A dusty brown cloud billowed in my rear view mirror, the forest to the right of the falls road had seen a burn off or bushfire
since the last time I was there.
I drove around one, then straddled a second black snake wriggling across the the road on my way in.
Both remained unscathed..dusty, but unscathed.
The unmaintained track past the falls lookout, zig-zagged gently downhill, to a couple of rocky viewing points with good views of falls &
the river valley below. From here the terrain gets very steep as it descends to a small tributary creek at the base of the falls.
Not an area for the faint hearted, or as phan-TOM alludes to in the above post....you must be confident in your scrambling abilities.
I stumbled out of the undergrowth, hot & sweaty, into a big, bouldery stream bed, running cool clear water,
with a big resident sunbaker warming himself on the rocks. He would have easily been a metre in length.
Around, over & under numerous large smooth boulders, I navigated my way to the base of the falls.
After setting up camp, I headed off downstream, rock hopping all the way to Rocky Island, about 1.5hrs away.
Keep to the right hand side, as there some nice long flat slabby sections on this side...easier on your knees, and believe me they're going to
need some easier sections ! From Rocky island it's roughly another 1 hour walk to Harrigans ford.
On the return journey I used the cattle tracks along the river bank as much as I could...my left knee was complaining about the abuse I was putting
it through.
Spotted lots of eels cruising the deep pools, on one occasion, I walked in front of one, tapped the toe of my boot on the waters surface &
it changed direction & latched onto my the toe of my boot ! Fearless buggers.
Surprised a few red bellied blacks, who were extremely fast/ agile at this time of day. Not aggressive though.
I swam in the deep eely pools, pummelled my aching muscles in a naturally formed jacuzzi, basked on warm rocks, encountered wildlife, friendly & dangerous....
What more could you want from an adventure.
I still havent been to Hairy Mans Rock though, that's on the list for next year, have you done it?
