Thursday 10 November 2022
Photos courtesy of Helen, Karen G, and Karen McL
Anticipating the next rain front to sweep through on the weekend, 19 bushwalkers took advantage of the mild sunny weather to enjoy a morning walk through Murramarang National Park between Maloneys Beach and North Head Beach.
We took some local tracks through dappled forest to the canoe tree and old stockyards, before finding the newly constructed South Coast Track running behind the Judges property and over to a new lookout at Three Islet Point. The new track then winds through forest to sandstone steps down the steep slope to North Head Beach.
The return journey is much the same until we branched off on the track to Quiriga Beach, up some new steps to Acheron Ledge and back to Maloneys via the ridge track. Just an aside – why is this headland named after Acheron in Greek mythology – the river of pain, woes, and lost souls in Hades?
From our vantage point above Maloneys Beach we could see where steps are to be constructed down the cliff to the South Coast Track trailhead and carpark.
Karen McL