Dave Gliddon – Nature Trail

Parks Service bureaucratic drizzle shuts the entire Blue Mountains National Park

April 7, 2022

Yesterday the New South Wales Parks Service decided to blanketly close the entire Blue Mountains National Park of some 2690 km2 indefinitely. The huge area extends pretty much from Bilpin to Kanangra and from Warragamba Dam to Mount Victoria. The reason for the blacket closure is simply the likelihood of well, rain. What? Rain in the Blue Mountains? Who would […]

Blue Mountains National Pass contractor death – coroner’s findings kept secret

November 29, 2018

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 […]