Nature Trail offers insightful and comprehensive morning and afternoon tours of the key features and valued local knowledge of villages of the Central Upper Blue Mountains. Blue Mountains villages are not suburbs. Established since the 19th Century, the villages of Upper Blue Mountains from Wentworth Falls to Hartley feature attractive countryside character, each with its own distinctive personable charm, and […]
Continue reading »Tour Title: Everglades and Sorensen Gardens Tour Code: GN-ESG Tour Type: Full Day Guided Walking Tour with Catering Departs/Returns: Katoomba Starts: 9am Finishes: 4pm (approx) Tour Overview: A special interest boutique full day walking tour exploring heritage listed Everglades Gardens and House in the garden village of Leura. We are guided by an expert site guide and horticulturalist around the […]
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The End Festival 2018
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Great Train Weekend – 150th Anniversary of the opening of the Great Western Line
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Artists Directory
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Tour Title: Grand Canyon Majesty Tour Code: HK-GCM Tour Type: Full Day Guided Hiking Tour Tour Price: $200 pp Tour Times: Start at Blue Mountains Cultural Centre, Katoomba 7:30am. Return to Katoomba 3:30pm approx. Tour Duration: 8 hours approx. Transport: Our tour leader is a qualified coach captain driving our tour vehicle ‘Excalibur’ – our luxury P38 Range Rover HSE. […]
Continue reading »by Andy Macqueen, 2017 Andy Macqueen is an engineer, hydrologist, conservationist, bushwalker and an accomplished writer of Blue Mountains history. This is his fifth book. Wayfaring in Wollemi celebrates the human side of wilderness. It presents the stories of 28 people: colonial explorers and surveyors, wanderers, cattlemen, would-be developers, adventurers and conservationists. For one reason or another they each spent a part […]
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Some 120km west of Sydney and at 1052 metres above sea level, Mount Victoria on the western escarpment is the highest and last village of the Central Blue Mountains before the road heads down the pass into the verdant valleys beyond. It is a charming Victorian village with heritage architecture dating back to the 1840s. It’s One Tree Hill at […]
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From time to time as the seasons entice, Nature Trail ventures beyond the Blue Mountains west into the pastoral and historic Central West Region of New South Wales, like on this occasion. We arrive in spring and high altitude Oberon’s fickle weather is luckily sunny for us today. Mayfield Garden is 13 km outside the old logging town of Oberon, […]
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Grand tour this one, so we get an early start at 7am. We explore what Shipley Plateau has to offer west of Blackheath, plus the entire length of the Megalong. ‘Megalong’ is Aboriginal for ‘valley under the cliff’ – Narrowneck’s ancient and magisterial sandstone escarpment. Locals have long balked at the tautology of ‘Megalong Valley‘ – translated to be ‘Valley […]
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Keen on an early start especially in the damp mist, determination paid off for us. Our small group of three drove out to one of the more remote parts of the Grose Gorge. Crawling along in the fog, our driver slowly rounded the corner to Eastern Grey Kangaroos happily grazing wild by the track. The dark grey male must have […]
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The forecast was for a warm windy day, so what better than to explore the shady dells below the Jamison Valley escarpment along the edge of Leura village. A small personable party of three, we passed through heath and native herbs, peas and myrtles flowering in spring this time of year. Cracked seed pods of the Hakea bushes lay across […]
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How lucky are we in the Mountains to celebrate spring and be just a short drive from a host of golden daffodils – all very much inspired by English 19th Century Romantic poet William Wordsworth. So last Saturday in mid September our tour headed west from the Blue Mountains, visiting wee Rydal village and its renowned daffodil festival. As always […]
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It was after much planning, preparation and investment that last Saturday 2nd September 2017 with great pleasure, Nature Trail was finally launched. Invited to the rather informal morning tea at Nature Trail Base were Anna, Annette, Geoff, Ivan, Phillip and local historian John Low OAM. John arrived from his new home in Portland and good local friends supportive of the […]
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Today following personal encouragement from business coach Chris Borrett (left), I have decided to proceed to launch my business venture, Nature Trail – guided bushwalking tours into the beautiful and wild Blue Mountains around where I live. Publishing this website today is the unassuming launch. ‘Phase 1’ shall kick off from September 2017, initially non-commercial as an informal undertaking, inviting […]
Continue reading »Nature Trail Practice Tours in Winter 2014 TRIP 02 Tour Title: Everglades and Sorensen Gardens Tour Code: GN-ESG Date: Wednesday, 4th Jun 2014 Trip Start Time: 10am Trip Finish Time: 2pm APPROX Trip Type: Morning with Gourmet Lunch Trip Category: Practice Trip Walk Distance/Grade: <1km / Easy […]
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OUR VERY FIRST TOUR Tour Title: Mountains Gardens & Nurseries Tour Code: GN-MGN Date: Saturday, 1st Feb 2014 Trip Start Time: 10am Trip Finish Time: 2pm APPROX Trip Type: Morning with Gourmet Lunch Trip Category: Practice Trip Walk Distance/Grade: <100m /Super Easy Transport Distance: nil Catering: […]
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Full Day Tour Super Easy Gourmet Lunch Tour Price $300 per guest Overview: A very private small group tour exploring selected formal private gardens of the Upper Blue Mountains. Local home owners show us around their private gardens and we head off to various local nurseries. We chat over lunch at magnificent Everglades Garden and have a wonder through […]
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