Gardens of Stone State Conservation Area - Wild Blue Mountains https://www.wildbluemountains.com My Love Affair With The Blue Mountains Wed, 11 Oct 2023 20:02:29 +0000 en-AU hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.7.2 ETHEREAL CANYON https://www.wildbluemountains.com/2023/03/newnes-state-forest-ethereal-canyon/ https://www.wildbluemountains.com/2023/03/newnes-state-forest-ethereal-canyon/#respond Tue, 14 Mar 2023 18:13:00 +0000 https://www.wildbluemountains.com/?p=17962 ETHEREAL CANYON 15 March 2023 It had been a while since I had visited Ethereal Canyon which, with one constriction, is more a creek than a canyon. Although the 2019-20 fires did damage the area, the creek was mostly untouched and offered the best of rainforest environments: creeks, waterfalls, palm tree ferns, and mossy rocks.

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]]> https://www.wildbluemountains.com/2023/03/newnes-state-forest-ethereal-canyon/feed/ 0 EAST CREEK https://www.wildbluemountains.com/2023/03/newnes-state-forest-east-creek/ https://www.wildbluemountains.com/2023/03/newnes-state-forest-east-creek/#respond Tue, 07 Mar 2023 18:13:00 +0000 https://www.wildbluemountains.com/?p=17794 EAST CREEK 8 March 2023 The plan was to walk upstream along East Creek, a tributary of Carne Creek, on the cliff line to East Creek Falls. The vegetation had other plans for us: we had to bail out half-way through the trip as it became evident we would not make it in time to the falls. To be continued …

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