Wednesday 10th July
Weather - down to 10.6 last night so a bit on the cool side. So glad I have an electric blanket as it was on all night. Clive did more walking tracks today. He was supposed to be back by 11.00am but was a no show. So I rang him and no reception so left him a message. This is what I was concerned about. Anyway, he did show up at 11.20 all in one piece and told me his phone beeped with the message just in front of the park. The sunny day turned cloudy in the afternoon. Nooooo! After Home and Away,(Channel 7) we go to Fox 3,(Channel 9) and it's down. No picture or sound. Not a happy Clive and I'm thinking about leaving the country. So the satellite dish comes out and in 10 minutes it's all set up and working perfectly. Talk about pressure. I said a quiet prayer and it worked. What's more the game hadn't even started yet. Who will win ? Sadly to say NSW, (Cockroaches) won and win the series 2-1. Oh well, at least we got to watch it and it was a good close game. Lots of screaming going on in the park tonight so I think a few others were watching the game too. Clive thinks that it had something to do with the licencing when Channel 9 sold some of the TV rights to Foxtel as Channel 3 is working fine now the game is over. Clive drove to the picnic area which saved about 1800m return. Total walk was 3.37km and 59 minutes. Dragon Cave and Bloodwood Cave - 2.6km return The Dripping Rock track travels for about 400m before taking a right turn over the bridge across Russell Gully. A moderate steep track leads to the cliff face where a side track branches north to Dragon Cave, (1.8km return). Here, the natural black mural of a 'dragon' can be seen highlighted against the white sandstone wall. The southern track leads to Bloodwood Cave, so called because the roots of a Bloodwood tree can be seen in the left hand side of the cave. Comment Clive - A left turn from the Bloodwood Cave track leads to the Gorge Lookout, (240m). To get to this lookout there are 69 steps that have to be climbed over the 240m, where the height over this distance increases by 34m. Something to get the heart pumping I can tell you.