Bushwalking in the Rainbow Region.

By Smith, Michael

Book Id: WPLBN0100750771
Format Type: PDF (eBook)
File Size: 6.96 MB.
Reproduction Date: 01/01/2010

Title:	Bushwalking in the Rainbow Region.
Author:	Smith, Michael
Volume:
Language:	English
Subject:	Non Fiction, Geography, Anthropology, Recreation
Collections:	Authors Community, Camping
Historic Publication Date:	2010
Publisher:	Self

Member Page:	Michael Smith
Citation APA MLA Chicago Smith, M. (2010). Bushwalking in the Rainbow Region.. Retrieved from http://self.gutenberg.org/

Description
Easy walks, the best of the rainforest, dramatic walks, rugged wild walks and THE BEST.

Summary
This bushwalking guide describes 59 day walks in the area between Tweed heads, Yamba and Woodenbong, in the Northern Rivers of New South Wales Australia.

Excerpt
Leech You take your socks off after a walk in the bush and you notice blood. Your foot and ankle have a number of red circu-lar bites, oozing blood. You have been bitten by leeches. They have sucked your blood and departed. Some might be hiding in your shoe, or still be attached. Much has been written on the best way to make them let go: fire, salt or Rid. Just pull them off, it makes little difference. The bite may be very itchy and bleed for up to 2 weeks. Leeches will attach anywhere on your body and, most likely, you won’t feel a thing. Leeches live in wet places and are most active when the leaves on the ground appear ‘shiny wet’. To avoid leeches, don’t go into the bush when it is really wet. Cover up bare skin. Check yourself all the time. Don’t sit on the ground. Avoid brushing past vegetation. Don’t stand still for long. Apply an insect repellent to your skin. The most important strategy is, before you go into the bush, take your socks off and ap-ply a generous coating of Rid, or other insect repellent (the thickened lotion is best), all over your feet from your toes to mid shin, including between the toes. Put your socks and shoes on and don’t worry after that. You will see leeches gather on your shoe; they will go through the weave of your socks but not bite. They eventu-ally give up in disgust.

Table of Contents
Walk Number Walk Page 1 The Loop Track ...................................4 2 Culmaran Valley Track ........................4 3 Iron Pot Loop .......................................4 4 The Murray Scrub Walking Track ......5 5 Eden Creek Falls ..................................5 6 Border Loop Walk ................................7 7 The Pinnacle Lookout ..........................7 8 Falcorostrum Loop ...............................7 9 Bar Mountain Circuit ..........................9 10 Helmholtzia Loop ................................9 11 Red Cedar Loop ..................................10 12 Brindle Creek .......................................10 13 Palm Forest Walk ..................................11 14 Rosewood Loop Walk ..........................11 15 Booyong Walk ......................................12 16 Byrrill Creek .........................................12 17 Ironbark Tree Reserve .........................13 18 Brummies Lookout ..............................13 19 The Lyre Bird Lookout ........................14 20 Mount Warning ...................................14 21 Mount Cougal, east peak .....................16 22 Walk on water ......................................17 23 Brunswick Heads Nature Reserve ........18 24 Tyagrah Nature Reserve ......................18 25 Cape Byron ..........................................19 26 Tallow Beach ........................................20 27 Broken Head to Whites Beach .............21 28 Broadwater Lookout to Salty Lagoon ..24 29 Dirrawong Reserve ..............................25 30 Goanna Headland ...............................25 31 Gummi Garra Walk .............................26 32 Jerusalem Creek ...................................27 33 Black Rocks wildflower walk ................27 34 Iluka Bluff Lookout ..............................28 35 Iluka Bluff to Woody Head ..................28 36 Iluka Rainforest ....................................28 37 Kunghur Flying Fox .............................29 38 Pholis Gap ............................................30 39 Mount Matheson Circuit .....................31 40 Dirangah Rocks ...................................31 41 Protester Falls .......................................32 42 Terania Creek Basin .............................33 43 Platypus Walk .......................................34 44 Cedar Walk ..........................................34 45 Scrub Turkey Walk ...............................34 46 Big Scrub Loop ....................................35 47 Boggy Creek Walk ................................35 48 Condong Falls ......................................36 49 Minyon Grass to the plunge pool .........37 50 Rummery Park to Peates Mountain .....38 51 Wanganui Gorge ..................................38 52 Nightcap Bluff Lookout .......................39 53 Clarrie Hall Dam .................................40 54 Burringbar Range Trail .......................40 55 Booyong Reserve ..................................42 56 Tucki Tucki Bora Ring .........................43 57 Tucki Tucki Nature Reserve .................43 58 Victoria Park ........................................44 59 Wilson Park ..........................................45