"I travel not to go anywhere, but to go. I travel for travel's sake. The great affair is to move." RLS
Probably the best known aboriginal rock art in the ACT is the Yankee Hat paintings in the Gudgenby Valley within Namadgi National Park – about 90 minutes drive from the centre of Canberra. Carbon dating of deposits in the Yankee Hat rock shelter date the site at over 800 yrs old and possibly up to 3700 years old. Continue reading “Yankee Hat Walk (Paintings)”
This walk, along a small section of the Australian Capital Territory and New South Wales border in the south of Namadgi National Park is not an official walk within the Park. Accordingly, it is not marked on maps nor is it signposted. Continue reading “Blazes on the Border”
If you walk the 9kms long Settlers Track in Namadgi National Park, which I strongly encourage you to do, you will encounter three old, restored dwellings along the way – Brayshaws Hut, Waterhole Hut and Westerman’s Homestead. This review is on Westerman’s Homestead located just over 7kms from the start of the walk if you follow the loop walk in an anticlockwise direction, as recommended. Continue reading “Westerman’s Homestead – Settlers Track”
If you walk the 9kms long Settlers Track in Namadgi National Park, which I strongly encourage you to do, you will encounter three old, restored dwellings along the way – Brayshaw’s Hut, Waterhole Hut and Westerman’s Homestead. This review is on Waterhole Hut and a nearby stock yard, both located about four kilometres from the start of the walk if you follow the loop walk in an anticlockwise direction, as recommended. Continue reading “Waterhole Hut and Stockyard”
One of the wonderful things about travelling is that one continually comes across, and learns new things. As I was making my away around along the Settlers Track in Namadgi National Park I noticed that many trees, all dead, has ‘rings’ around them, about a metre up from the ground. Continue reading “Ring Barking in the Bobeyan Valley”
If you walk the 9kms long Settlers Track in Namadgi National Park, which I strongly encourage you to do, you will encounter three old, restored dwellings along the way – Brayshaw’s Hut, Waterhole Hut and Westerman’s Homestead. This review is on Brayshaw’s Hut, the first dwelling you will encounter if you walk the loop walk in an anticlockwise direction, as recommended. Continue reading “Brayshaws Hut – Settlers Track”
The isolated Bobeyan Valley, in the southern part of the Namadgi National Park, in the southern border area of the Australian Capital Territory, was first settled by Europeans in the 1830s. Even today the area is fairly isolated, being bypassed by the main highway and some 50kms from Tharwa village and 90kms from central Canberra to the North and 30 kilometres from the small township of Adaminaby to the south. Continue reading “Tin Dish – Bobeyan Subsidised School”
In addition to wonderful vistas, which in themselves provide ample justification for doing this walk, there are a number of buildings and other things of historical interest along this Bobeyan Valley walk making it one of my favourite walks in Namadgi National Park. Continue reading “The Settlers Track – Namadgi”
The view from Hospital Hill Lookout, situated along the side of the Bodeyan Road about a kilometre after the road turns from a sealed to an unsealed road, is one of the best in Namadgi National Park. Distance from carpark 20 metres! Continue reading “Hospital Hill Lookout”
Namadgi is the Australian Capital Territory’s largest park at 106,095 hectares. Indeed it accounts for 46% of the total area of the Territory. It stretches from about 35kms to 90kms south of Australia’s capital city, Canberra. Continue reading “Out and About in Namadgi”
The Rambling Wombat 