Welcome to the second Wednesday Walk. This week Veghead has chosen a bit of a drive and then a bit of a walk. This time in the Watagans National Park. The walk was ab
out 1.5kms, but this is a return, so failing a helicopter to extract us from the base of the waterfall, we also had to walk back. And there was quite a bit of steep uphill walking on the return journey. We were prepared for this though because we'd already done the downhill
part beforehand. I read somewhere that the waterfall is arguably the best waterfall in the Hunter region. I couldn't possibly argue seeing that its the only waterfall in the Hunter that I've seen, b
ut it was quite lovely. Not all that much water; not much more than a trickle really as there hadn't been much rain, but lovely nonetheless. Maybe we'll come back another time after a deluge. So it was a nice easy walk down to the bottom, stopping along the way to explore inside a tree, and taking care to avoid the triffid, which is actu
ally a strangler vine which has strangled a rock....nasty. We had our picnic on the rocks at the bottom of the falls and then made our way back to the top. I was panting heavily on some of the steeper parts of the ascent, but Veghead is quite accustomed to trekking uphill, and normally carrying a large log to boot. This was nothin'. Upon returning to the car, we spotted a goanna on a tree. What a treat.
Welcome to the second Wednesday Walk. This week Veghead has chosen a bit of a drive and then a bit of a walk. This time in the Watagans National Park. The walk was ab
out 1.5kms, but this is a return, so failing a helicopter to extract us from the base of the waterfall, we also had to walk back. And there was quite a bit of steep uphill walking on the return journey. We were prepared for this though because we'd already done the downhill 
part beforehand. I read somewhere that the waterfall is arguably the best waterfall in the Hunter region. I couldn't possibly argue seeing that its the only waterfall in the Hunter that I've seen, b
ut it was quite lovely. Not all that much water; not much more than a trickle really as there hadn't been much rain, but lovely nonetheless. Maybe we'll come back another time after a deluge. So it was a nice easy walk down to the bottom, stopping along the way to explore inside a tree, and taking care to avoid the triffid, which is actu
ally a strangler vine which has strangled a rock....nasty. We had our picnic on the rocks at the bottom of the falls and then made our way back to the top. I was panting heavily on some of the steeper parts of the ascent, but Veghead is quite accustomed to trekking uphill, and normally carrying a large log to boot. This was nothin'. Upon returning to the car, we spotted a goanna on a tree. What a treat.
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