Walking the Coast Track
I made the most of the fine weather we had this week and got out into the Royal National Park.
Leaving my motor scooter at Wattamolla car park I headed south along the Coast Track to the broken, rocky inlet of Curracurrang. A hidden gem there is the natural waterfall-fed swimming pool about 200m upstream of the cove. Delightfully cold, yet the water cascading down the waterfall is warm from the heat of the sun-exposed rocky stream bed above.
I’ve seen up to a dozen Water Dragons at this swimming hole in the past, sometimes sunning themselves on the flat rocks that people swim off but mostly inhabiting the shelves of the waterfall rock-face.
This time, as I sat reading my book quietly in the shade for an hour, one particular dragon got very curious about this strange creature sitting on her rock, so she slowly proceeded to get closer and closer to investigate. By the end of the hour she was sitting only eight inches away from my face as I lay on my towel, peering into my eyes and watching me watching her.
Eventually I continued my walk south to Curracurrong and the spectacular cliffs and waterfall at Eagle Rock, before a hard slog up the hill over the Curra Moors Trail to the main road and a return to the carpark.
An adult echidna, cliffs, ocean, native flora… click on any of the following photos to see the full gallery. Enjoy!
