We made some curried egg sandwiches and headed up the mountain to the lookout and Gloucester Falls, it was about 20kms up a steep narrow gravel road. The walk to the falls was about 2 kms return but wasn’t too steep and most of the track was well made. The view of the falls wasn’t that spectacular from the lookout and the track down to the bottom was closed. Against Jacky’s advice I decided to see how far it went down. It turned out that you could get quite close to the falls before the track was torn away where a large tree had fallen over. I took a few photos of the falls and we headed back to the car park for lunch.

Gloucester River Falls

After lunch we headed back to camp, I checked out a few side tracks but they didn’t go very far. It appears that the Barrington / Gloucester Tops area is a large wilderness area with only limited vehicle access at multiple points around the edges and only walking tracks that go across the national park.

Currawong, Gloucester Tops

Back at camp we spent the rest of the afternoon watching the variety of wildlife

Lyre Bird

We had a lyrebird cross the camping area, photo opportunities were limited but we got to hear his vast array of calls. The wrens, robins and kookaburras just walked all around the camp coming up quite close to our tents to get crumbs and pieces of apple.

Eastern Crimson Rosella

As it got dark a couple of brush tail possums came to investigate our camp, but when they decided to climb on the tent I decide enough was enough and took the broom to them.