Mount Bushwalker Walking Track – Morton National Park – New South Wales (Bare Bones Bushwalking)

The Budawang Range is a unique and incredibly beautiful feature on the south coast of New South Wales, well known and loved by bushwalkers and other outdoor enthusiasts.

Although it’s especially well known for it’s rugged, wild terrain, there’s at least one place where those lower down the fitness scale can experience its unbelievable views first hand – the Mount Bushwalker Walking Track.

– descend a management vehicle track for a short time before turning off into the scrub

– so many birds and lizards
– boardwalks and stumps to cross in places where the ground may be particularly wet or the vegetation sensitive
– tunnels cut into the thicket of Banksia trees
– tall banksias, hakea, boronia
– at one point there’s a section of rock outcrop where a small creek crosses the track and tumbles over a rock ledge into the valley below – it was easy enough to avoid getting our feet wet but had it been raining more heavily it would’ve tested the waterproofness of our shoes
– may be impassable after heavy rain
– eventually we reach a more open section where we cross the rock plateau – yellow dots
– view down the Clyde River Valley
– o the east is a long stretch of cliffs that leads out to Gadara Point and beyond that, Mount Talaterang, and peeking over the top is the distinctive crown of Pigeon House Mountain. On the west side of the valley, far, far away is The Castle, a huge block of rock that dominates the vista.
– not really a mountain – high point on a sandstone plateau