Showing posts with label royal national park. Show all posts
Showing posts with label royal national park. Show all posts

Friday, December 14, 2018

ROYAL NP - KAYAK AND MTB - 14 DECEMBER 2018

13 DECEMBER 2018

A kayak at Royal National Park on the Hacking River.



I parked and launched from Reid's Flat Picnic Area. There is a small white sand river beach to launch the kayak.

I paddled down the river. It was very clear on the shoreline with lots of fishes doing their fish business. The shore was lined mainly with mangroves and rocks with pockets of white sand beaches.




It was all very peaceful and quiet.



Back to the start, I continued upriver to the weir. I followed the hewed sandstone shoreline and the weir wall.



A nice flat-water with striking natural scenery.

14 DECEMBER 2018

Back at Royal National Park but the weather looks like rain.



The tracks were so varied and amazing. They looped around and joined onto other tracks. The scenery changed from open tracks, main road, narrow tree lined, steep berms, rocky base, pools of water. So much fun.




The track that followed Temptation Creek was long, hard in parts and fun. Unfortunately, the camera didn't work on the best part of the ride.




On arrival back at the van, the heavens let loose and the rain poured down.



A fun and exciting mountain bike ride.

Monday, December 10, 2018

ROYAL NATIONAL PARK MTB - 10 DECEMBER 2018

A day in  Sydney so I visited Royal National Park.



I checked out Garie Beach for surf - very small. I checked Hacking River for kayaking - no private crafts on freshwater side of weir but okay on tidal side with a launch at Rids Crossing. I checked Loftus Loop Trail for a mountain bike ride.





I settled for the mountain bike ride. there were a lot of trails/tracks leading off the loop trail. I followed a number of them and some of them were long and flowy and heaps of fun. the Temptation Creek Trails was in part a long downhill and a steep uphill. It was very exciting with loose rocks and steep corners. I was a bit nervous on it but survived. Towards the Loftus Oval side I found lots more flowy tracks and a young guy showed me where a few off shoots of the main track was. It was great.


I'll be back there later in the week.

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