Lane Cove National Park

Monday, 25 May 2015

Big lizard

I'm watching!

Banksia

Pimela

Acacia Dontknowii

Communing with Nature?

Lane Cove River 

Lane Cove River

Fungus

Go away, it's mine!

Kiama was mild and overcast this morning – and no wind! – when we packed up ready for our trip north to the big smoke of Sydney.  Kiama is quite hilly and we experienced some seriously big hills as we made our way to the highway; fuel consumption was well off the graph!  We joined the traffic heading north, bypassing Port Kembla and Wollongong before using heaps more fuel as we climbed the Bulli Pass and received our first glimpse of a very smoggy Sydney in the distance.  We negotiated the traffic without any dramas and thanked Doris TomTom most sincerely when we arrived at the Lane Cove National Park and caravan park.

We have been allocated a site in the older part of the park, under a great big gum tree (well, most sites are under great big gum trees actually) and had to manoeuvre around two large trees to reverse onto site.  After setting up, and some lunch, we stretched our legs (and had a good cardio-vascular workout) with a work through the national park down to the Lane Cove River.  Of course, what goes down must come up!  Although a big wet underfoot in places, there were plenty of wildflowers to keep the photographer happy.  There is also plenty of wildlife about the caravan park; unfortunately the scrub turkeys can’t read the “Don’t Feed” signs.

With a handful of brochures to read, we have decided we wont have any trouble filling a few days in Sydney.