Tuesday October 1st, 2024

We took the Sherwood up to John Forest National Park for the day. We had been wanting to take walks away from the city and as we haven’t been to this park for many years it was ‘calling’ us. We knew we would be too late for the best wildflowers and were surprised to find there were still quite a lot.

On arrival we took a short walk and saw a kangaroo and joey right away near the picnic area. There were also parrots feeding there. Unfortunately, even if people don’t deliberately feed the wildlife picnic areas end up with some food on the ground.

We had a packed lunch with us and as it was rather hot in the middle of the day we had our lunch and a rest inside (with fans going) until about 3.00 p.m. We walked to the right along the creek, then walked down to the falls on the road/path towards the old railway tunnel. We saw more kangaroos on the walk and they didn’t seem too bothered by us, a little wary, but not scared.

We left the park at about 6.00 p.m., hoping the traffic would be a bit less frantic. It’s relatively easy to make the right turn out of the park onto Great Eastern Highway as it’s a divided road with a pausing area to check the traffic going the other way.

It was a really lovely day out and we will try to have more of them. The day was pretty warm because rain was forecast the next day, and it really poured on Wednesday.

The old tavern in the park has closed and become a part of the ranger station. They are building a new cafe and car park and the machinery was working until quite late in day. We hope to visit again when it is open, perhaps in a few months.