Poloma Cave is less than fifty kilometres from the Sydney CBD, in the Royal National Park. The cave is formed by large overhanging rock formations, the entrance is wide and open and not in any sense a tunnel, unlike a most other limestone caves.
Some say, our Royal National Park was the first in the world, it was proclaimed 1879. The other contender to be the oldest is Yellowstone National Park in California. Which is the oldest depends how the start date is defined.
About a kilometre along the Uloola Falls Trail from the Waterfall Station, is the memorial pictured below. On the third of November 1980, five volunteer firemen perished here when their fire truck was caught in a bush fire.
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Along the Hacking River Valley
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Limestone formations
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A small waterfall along the Couranga Trail
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Memorial to the Fire Men
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Directions to the Cave
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Where I crossed the Hacking River
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Palona Falls, near the cave
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Stats, distance: 22Km
moving time: 3hr, 35min
Elevation: 486metre
Calories:1582
Great walk Rod and thanks for the pictures, really good. Cheers John.
ReplyDeleteThanks John.
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