A Wonderful Hike and Fitzroy Falls

I woke up early and decided to read so that I wouldn’t disturb the boy’s beauty sleep. All of a sudden I saw movement out of the corner of my eye and noticed a wallaby sitting at the base of a tree near the house. Not caring who I woke at this point I ran down the hall and woke Bryan to see the Wallaby. I think the wallaby spotted me through the window when I tore down the hall to get Bryan because it didn’t stop watching us for the longest time. Fortunately, I was able to get a pretty good picture of it before it hopped away.

After breakfast we drove across Kangaroo Valley to Dietmar and Elizabeth’s house. We had coffee and tea on their back patio before we left for our hike. We also spotted a wedge tail eagle.

Dietmar took us on a 1.8 km trail through the bush, that lead to a high point on some rocks, overlooking a dam. The sites were absolutely beautiful.

Since we missed seeing Fitzroy Falls on our first go around Zeph took us back there to view the magnificent falls. The waterfall is 81m (266 ft) high. They have many platforms along a path where you can view the falls. The first platform we went to was about 30 feet from the falls and at the very top. This made me very nervous so I only went out on the platform long enough to take a picture then went back to the safety of solid ground. Then we walked along the path to two other platforms to get different views of the falls. Along the way they had informational native animal signs. We learned about a Lyre bird. It’s a sort of Australian mocking bird that is amazing at mocking different animals and sounds. They are known to make a loud chainsaw noise.

After dinner we went looking for wombats. We were very lucky and saw several. Zephyr even got us so close to one we could almost touch it. They were so cute I wanted to take one home with me but I couldn’t figure out how to get it through customs if I was actually able to catch one.