Minyon Falls

Minyon Falls are in this park so we drove down there had some breaky and took off on the 9km round trip walk. It is rated as class 3 so we were expecting some obstacles. The waterfall is 100m cliff so the walk looked a little daunting.


The walk is great for fitness and took about 1 ½ hours but the view when we climbed over that last rock was well worth it. A walk through the valley of the Palms and under 100m tall gum trees was brilliant. We sat at the bottom getting the odd cold shower form above and then headed back. There were eels playing in the water at the bottom of the creek and we encountered a somewhat aggressive Lizard that Tina frightened. He was probably just as scared as Tina and wasn’t happy to let Tina past.

A 3 hour round trip some great photos and two tired sore and whining bodies made it back to the car. There are plenty of Monitor lizards here and the local birds especially the Kookaburras are not pleased when they are around and constantly swoop the Monitors. We decided we would spend another day here just relaxing after our big walk. Two couples arrived in the afternoon ad set up camp next to us. We made Tuna and Potato pies on the Cobb. A quite night around the fire talking about travel stories and fending of the wildlife from attacking our camp site. A couple of local Bandicoot’s and a small Kangaroo, not sure what it is actually continually attacked our campsite in search of food.


We headed back to Brunswick Heads which is just north of Byron Bay on the coast. Still very popular but a bit more sophisticated. As usual we didn’t use the Tourist road but a 4WD drive through the mountains. We hope this road isn’t closed like every one around here. There are two things I don’t understand in these National Parks. Firstly they don’t want you to use the wood around the camping area. Well the more growth they clear around the camp areas the less chance of some city folk burning down the park. We have stayed at a couple of places where I was nearly too scared to light a fire. All the local cocky’s agree when I mention this. Secondly if they close all the roads how are emergency vehicles or fire trucks supposed to get down these road. There is some benefit to having people use these tracks as they maintain the firebreak.