fredsub
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Bit of a trip, south through Nowra,Neriga,Braidwood,Cooma,and back via Braidwood,Marulan,Bundeena.
Started off easter Thursday afternoon, warning (for future reference): The Princess Hwy is a parking lot going through Nowra btw 3-5pm
Headed off towards Braidwood/Turpentine Rd.
Getting near dark about Tiangara Falls, start looking for a suitable off track for somewhere to bush camp, theres quite a few.
Found a good spot a couple hundred meters from the road. The Turpentine road is unsealled to this point yet.
Camp oven meal of steak and potatoes - yumm
After a good breakfast, headed off towards Sassafras. Here you can now see the massive works that are progressing to seal the Turpentine road,
and the blot in what was once a unique landscape,
compare the pic from a few years ago
to now....
Can't believe there wasn't some protest about this, surely couldv'e resumed some land elsewhere for this highway!
The object of the first part of the trip was to get to WogWog camp/parking area to join up with some other bush walkers for a few
days bush bashing in the Budawangs....
Who can guess the name of the summit in the distance?
Been there?
Anyone else here into extreme bushbashing? Gaiters,long sleeves and pigskin gloves come highly recommended.....
Anyway after some days of excellent company, as this is a subaru car forum, onwards destination Cooma...
Good thing about Easter Weekend is the Driver reviver sites around, this one in Braidwood, excellent for a free cuppa.
and steak sandwiches (which you pay for)
Well its getting dark, and got the Oziexplorer waypoints set up to get me to a camp site i'ved used before near Pikes Saddle.
Heading out of Braidwood on Captains Flat Road. 1st way point, continue straight ahead Krawarree Road (unsealled).
Travelling about 70-80kph now, scanning the road sides for roos......
2nd waypoint,Krawarree Rd + Jerrabattgulla Rd, continue Krawarre Rd.
3rd wp, Big Hole turnoff, its only ~2km to the camp area, so go have a looksee. Yup, quite a few campers here, but i've never liked
this spot much.....
4th wp is about an hour+ further on, at Currenbene Ck...thats the camp for the night.
This is btw, the track from this side that goes to Bendethera camp area, i'm not gonna go there in the OBW,
the rock jumps ups, about oh 3km in are murderous, seriously need diff locks there....AWD and open diffs - forget it.
I'v been told the way in from Moruya is much easier....
Haven't seen one of these wallabies before....pretty face huh?
It wasn't too bothered about my presence as it was keen on eating the blackberries,
did many shots, but the early morning light did make it difficult
Headed off,towards Nimmitabel. Baadja Road, then Tuross Road. Drove in 5km to Tuross Falls, but looking at the state of my
fuel indication, and not being familiar yet with its nuiances, 3 points off empty, thought prudence might be best to continue
to next fuel stop. On to Kybeyan road, which turns sealed about 10km? from Nimmitabel.
Turns out theres no fuel here, but another driver survivor site.... Next stop a farm outside Cooma for 2 days.
The fuel indicator was about 1point below Empty when I filled, 44litres, soooo, there s still plenty of fuel in it yet, hmmmm.
From Cooma, Numeralla, heading for Tuross Road, and the turnoff to the falls camp area.
Gees how things change, theres a pit toilet and picnic tables here!!
In the morning, go for a walk to cascades view, and then further on Tuross Falls. Gosh viewing platforms and all!!
Well stuff that, as i'm a bit of the not so well trodden path, so a bush bash down to the bottom of the falls.....
Met a snake on the way down, well, I saw it peering outa a dark crevice about 1.5m away. Hmm, such big eyes were watching me intently,
i estimated about 2in between the eyes, thats a Big snake, and can make out its mostly gray, so i'm guessing its a broadhead
snake...anyway making a bargain, I leave it alone, and it leaves me alone.
It was still there on the way back up, well thats good, at least I didn't sorta need to wittingly check over every rock clamber...
Heading off back to Braidswood, getting there in the dark, but the lovely Bakery shop always seems to be open till late, whilst everything else is closed....
and doing good trading.
Haven't had donuts for years,yum choci donuts....
really!?
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Started off easter Thursday afternoon, warning (for future reference): The Princess Hwy is a parking lot going through Nowra btw 3-5pm
Headed off towards Braidwood/Turpentine Rd.
Getting near dark about Tiangara Falls, start looking for a suitable off track for somewhere to bush camp, theres quite a few.
Found a good spot a couple hundred meters from the road. The Turpentine road is unsealled to this point yet.
Camp oven meal of steak and potatoes - yumm
After a good breakfast, headed off towards Sassafras. Here you can now see the massive works that are progressing to seal the Turpentine road,
and the blot in what was once a unique landscape,
compare the pic from a few years ago
to now....
Can't believe there wasn't some protest about this, surely couldv'e resumed some land elsewhere for this highway!
The object of the first part of the trip was to get to WogWog camp/parking area to join up with some other bush walkers for a few
days bush bashing in the Budawangs....
Who can guess the name of the summit in the distance?
Been there?
Anyone else here into extreme bushbashing? Gaiters,long sleeves and pigskin gloves come highly recommended.....
Anyway after some days of excellent company, as this is a subaru car forum, onwards destination Cooma...
Good thing about Easter Weekend is the Driver reviver sites around, this one in Braidwood, excellent for a free cuppa.
and steak sandwiches (which you pay for)
Well its getting dark, and got the Oziexplorer waypoints set up to get me to a camp site i'ved used before near Pikes Saddle.
Heading out of Braidwood on Captains Flat Road. 1st way point, continue straight ahead Krawarree Road (unsealled).
Travelling about 70-80kph now, scanning the road sides for roos......
2nd waypoint,Krawarree Rd + Jerrabattgulla Rd, continue Krawarre Rd.
3rd wp, Big Hole turnoff, its only ~2km to the camp area, so go have a looksee. Yup, quite a few campers here, but i've never liked
this spot much.....
4th wp is about an hour+ further on, at Currenbene Ck...thats the camp for the night.
This is btw, the track from this side that goes to Bendethera camp area, i'm not gonna go there in the OBW,
the rock jumps ups, about oh 3km in are murderous, seriously need diff locks there....AWD and open diffs - forget it.
I'v been told the way in from Moruya is much easier....
Haven't seen one of these wallabies before....pretty face huh?
It wasn't too bothered about my presence as it was keen on eating the blackberries,
did many shots, but the early morning light did make it difficult
Headed off,towards Nimmitabel. Baadja Road, then Tuross Road. Drove in 5km to Tuross Falls, but looking at the state of my
fuel indication, and not being familiar yet with its nuiances, 3 points off empty, thought prudence might be best to continue
to next fuel stop. On to Kybeyan road, which turns sealed about 10km? from Nimmitabel.
Turns out theres no fuel here, but another driver survivor site.... Next stop a farm outside Cooma for 2 days.
The fuel indicator was about 1point below Empty when I filled, 44litres, soooo, there s still plenty of fuel in it yet, hmmmm.
From Cooma, Numeralla, heading for Tuross Road, and the turnoff to the falls camp area.
Gees how things change, theres a pit toilet and picnic tables here!!
In the morning, go for a walk to cascades view, and then further on Tuross Falls. Gosh viewing platforms and all!!
Well stuff that, as i'm a bit of the not so well trodden path, so a bush bash down to the bottom of the falls.....
Met a snake on the way down, well, I saw it peering outa a dark crevice about 1.5m away. Hmm, such big eyes were watching me intently,
i estimated about 2in between the eyes, thats a Big snake, and can make out its mostly gray, so i'm guessing its a broadhead
snake...anyway making a bargain, I leave it alone, and it leaves me alone.
It was still there on the way back up, well thats good, at least I didn't sorta need to wittingly check over every rock clamber...
Heading off back to Braidswood, getting there in the dark, but the lovely Bakery shop always seems to be open till late, whilst everything else is closed....
and doing good trading.
Haven't had donuts for years,yum choci donuts....
really!?
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incredible views from up there on a clear day, almost as good as Mt Warning.
However, sad to see that nice gravel road getting covered in tarmac.:sad:
If it does happen, I'd say just go on with the post and one of us will try to catch it pretty quick. You could also send one of us a PM and we might get to it quicker. We apologize, and are trying to get it fixed. It seems to be mostly happening on longer posts and/or posts with lots of pics.
