Blue Mountains ‘Grand Cliff Top Walk’ Our Critique – SEGMENT 7:  Reid’s Plateau to Explorers Marked Tree

(Content TBA)

 

The following map sourced from Google Maps shows what is a current trail route extension from Scenic World to the Explorers Marks Tree, being the official starting point for the heritage Six Foot Track.

The trail continues for the most part following the cliff top of the Jamison Escarpment.  It rails Cliff Drive from Scenic World to Boar’s Head and Cahill’s Lookout, but then currently the trail is forced to return to Narrowneck Road  for a stretch to Stuarts Road and then travel through Bonnie Doone Glen.

This author Steven John Ridd correctly spells “Doone” with an “e” because this is the original English spelling.  It is the spelling of the classic romantic novel ‘Lorna Doone‘ of 1869 by R. D. Blackmore which is set in Exmoor in north Devon, to which this author has fond connections and ancestral heritage.]

Unfortunately Google Maps fails to show Bonnie Doone Track properly from the western dead end of Stuarts Road.

Instead in reality, the Bonnie Doone Track starts from the dead end of Stuarts Road, continues along the clifftop of the Western Escarpment (overlooking Nellies Glen down to the west), passes by the short side track of Therabulat Lookout, then descends into the glen across a small unnamed watercourse and then ascends out the other side of the glen up to a junction with a vehicular track.

The following map is a little clearer about Bonnie Doone Track section.  An alternative exit  route out of Boone Doone is to follow a northerly track via the old disused quarry site of what was Katoomba Brick and Tile works to foot track which leads up to Pulpit Hill and the Explorers Marked Tree.