Below is the magical Megalong Road that takes one down into the ‘Megalong’…meaning “valley below the rock“. When you arrive at the valley’s floor, you can then look back up to the escarpment and appreciate this naming by its ancient Aboriginal custodians. For this particular reconnoitre trip to what we call ‘Megalong Glen‘ back on Friday 14th January 2022, […]
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Leura Village is a famous hub for visitors to the Blue Mountains to quality shop and dine and to enjoy the village’s relaxed country leafy charm. A vital asset is Leura Garage Café Restaurant Bar which for over a decade since first opening in 2011 has been one of the Blue Mountains most popular eateries. Yet, on January 25 in […]
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Since Wednesday 9th November 2022, Wolgan Road has been closed due to heavy rainfall along the road pass below the Wolgan Valley Lookout, causing a number of landslips making the main road access in and out of Wolgan Valley impassable. That was more than two months ago. The Wolgan Valley is situated just about 30km north of the western Blue […]
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Tragically again, two more people have been killed by a landslip in the Jamison Valley just south of the village of Wentworth Falls in the Blue Mountains. Yesterday, Monday 4th April 2022, a group of tourists (a family of five from Britain) embarked on an unguided day hike along the Wentworth Pass loop track. They likely followed the UK-based website […]
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Blue Mountain’s Council Mayor Mark Greenhill has presided over perpetual hiking track closures since February 2020, and it’s nearly two years on. Leura Cascades was closed in February 2020 during a known and predictable La Niña period heavy rainfall weather pattern which deluged the east coast of New South Wales including the Blue Mountains region. Substandard stormwater drainage brought on a […]
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Leura Cascades landslip closure not a priority for Council
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Tragically, just before midday smoko on Wednesday 29th November 2017, three contractors with the NSW NPWS (Parks Service) were suddenly struck by a boulder fall from some 10 metres above them. They were repairing a cliff section along the historic National Pass in the Blue Mountains National Park at Wentworth Falls. These were the boulders. At the time of the […]
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