Picnics not included. Kind of ominous when the sign says "Experience the Mystery?, no?
It turns out that hanging rock (or "The Hanging Rock") is actually only one small part of the whole area. It turns out that the hanging rock is a large boulder that is suspended between two other boulders. It's kind of cool.
Hanging Rock (sorry for the bad picture of it)
There are all sorts of other interesting rock formations all around (all these rocks make up a small mountain - or well, a mountain by Australian standards). We climbed up to the summit, around through some of the formations and back down and then walked around the base of the whole thing.
Interesting rock formations
View from the summit
We had lunch at the cafe there (great food btw) and saw a bird we've never seen before - the Pied Currawong (unfortunately I wasn't quick enough with my camera to get a picture). The one we saw was likely a female as she had grey on her stomach (and she was pretty big & fluffy). There were tonnes of crimson rosellas around which was good to see since we don't get many of them in our area and we also saw a few kookaburras!
Immature Crimson Rosella
We had a great walk and even though the walk to the summit was a little intense at times, it wasn't too difficult (unlike the You-Yangs where we just gave up). The walk we took around the base of the mountain was great, it was mostly flat and we were the only ones on the trail.
Thankfully we didn't see any snakes!
We were walking along quietly, listening to the birds when we came across this:
I think that's the largest kangaroo I've seen outside the zoo.
There were SO many of them. We counted 24 and there were likely more (there were quite a few with joeys in their pouch).
We had a really great time and were really pleased with the whole area. We bought the Picnic at Hanging Rock DVD in the gift shop and then watched it when we got home.
Lone rock wallaby in the bushes.
Temperature: +9C
Sunrise: 6:07am
Sunset: 6:18pm
2 comments:
That rock really is impressive! I know it's been there for a good long time, but it looks kind of... precarious.
haha yeah, it does! I was pretty nervous when I walked under it (twice!). There were all sorts of other rocks balanced at odd angles too.
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