After my walking companion had found the new walking track on the ridge to the east of here, we drove around to see if a walking track existed from the end of St Georges Crescent, there was, right near the National parks sign. I elected to return another day and have a look whilst he decided to go for a quick explore to see how far it went and what condition the track was in.
He sent me a track log from his GPS to show me how far he had walked and gave me some basic info on what the track was like, sounded like it needed exploring to see if it went anywhere interesting. So, we once again met at the end of St Georges Crescent at Faulconbridge, grabbed some water and GPS to allow us to map the track into Open Street Map and headed off down the track. Once again, the recent hazard reductions had blackened the bush and it was very much scorched earth and brown leaves on the trees.
The track once you are out of sight of the nearby houses is very well defined and in good condition, quite wide as well, a bit further down, sadly local kids have started to turn sections into bike jumps etc, the track splits and rejoins again a hundred mtrs or so further along. On the eastern side of where the track loops, another track continues off down the nose of the ridge, again, well defined but gets a little steeper.
You get to the first of a number of mini clifflines that are easy to negotiate down via the track, again the track winds its way down the eastern side of the ridge now heading towards the creek that divides the two ridges. Another drop down an easy mini cliff and you walk along beside this 15 or so foot high cliff for a while before the track once again heads further down the slope.
In some places, with the fires and recent rain, the track is quite slippery and washed away requiring care you don't slide down the slope, we could start to hear the creek further below, but that turns out to have been the creek at the end of the nose which the track does not go to, it again, heads down the slope to the east and that creek which was pretty dry when we finally arrived at the base of the slope. The track "ends" at a large boulder and you can see that the water has made it's way down both sides of this huge rock.
Down into the right of the rock, you can see a nice waterfall, again, barely a trickle flowing at all. On the left of the large rock, you can continue down right to creek level, watch for the lawyer vine as you descend the final part. When you get down this far, you can see a second 10 foot drop of so below the first giving it 2 tiers, would make for a nice photo in good flowing conditions.
I had a bit more of a scout around to see if the track continued any further, sure you could walk down to the next creek, but I could find no real evidence of the actual track continuing. I left my companion and decided to skirt around the small falls and walk up the creek for a bit to see what else I could find as when I had come down the creek from above, it looked like the creek dropped into a bit of a bowl shaped valley.
About 100mtrs or more up from the bottom of the track, I did indeed come across a wonderful amphitheatre, with a single fall, again, just trickling of around 30-40 feet in height. A spectacular sand-lined overhang on the left that was easy to get into and lots and lots of overhangs high up on the right side of this bowl-shaped amphitheatre. Again, this would be stunning with a good flow of water over the waterfall.
We returned back to the cars via the track we had descended down, not overly taxing and taking only 15-20 minutes or so to make the ascent back to the cars. A nice short walk that would be worthwhile after some good rain to see both these falls in good flow.
The total walk is only just over half a km, so a nice and quick walk to a potentially nice spot after some good rain.
