Mini Adventure Series No.5 (30th May - 2nd June)

Oberon... Kind of!

So this time I got to choose the location of our mini adventure, and having no idea where anything interesting was, I stuck a pin in a map. Well not really, I chose a place based on it's name... Oberon, king of the fairies, A Midsummer Night's Dream.
Off we go on Friday night to Oberon, and there really is nothing of interest there, so we stayed the night, had pancakes for breakfast, and wandered on.

We had noticed on our way there signs for Jenolan Caves, so we dubbed that worth a look and were off. I'm sure they were absolutely lovely, but having been to Yarrangobilly a few weeks previously which were self guided, quite impressive and free, we couldn't justify paying to explore caves unless we were to do a proper caving excursion, not just the self guided walks on offer. So we had a nose round where we could and wandered on. I've since heard that there's an even better cave system in the area anyway.










Earlier we'd seen another interesting sign, this became something f a system for our travelling. This sign merely said 'The Wall' at Kanangra-Boyd National Park. Now what a 'wall' could be was a defiantly interested me. It turned out to be incredible. I'm not even going to try to describe how beautiful it was. Pictures can defiantly do a better job.

And a short walk further down the trail was a waterfall, which was really quite unimpressive, until we decided to go scrambling down it. So much fun but we did stop before it became a proper climb. It still wasn't an impressive waterfall but the views were good and it was fun enough to make it worth the effort.






Being only Saturday we journeyed onward. I'm sure Casey was only looking for a decent pub, but we ended up in Katoomba, and I was promised something impressive in the morning.
Unfortunately Sunday was a bit wet and horrible so half the plan just wouldn't have been enjoyable. The plan was The Three Sisters; a trio of peaks in a deep valley. The effect with the rain and the clouds in the valley viewed from Echo Point was incredible but the cable car ride from Scenic World just wasn't really suited for the weather. Another time maybe.

Despite the rain the trip home was fun. Firstly to Bathurst and a drive around the racecourse in the ute. Sadly there was a speed limit so no fun racing.

Then a brief stop at Koorawatha where the rain let up to allow us a look at the waterfall again, this time with water running. There wasn't really much of it still. Not your most impressive waterfall.





And back to Young along the scenic route, stopping at Greenthorpe to see what the Aussie definition of a castle is... Not quite what I would call a castle.