Katoomba – Nature Trail

We sense that the ‘Climate Cult’ fad continues to promulgate its ideology propped up in overloaded government bureaucracies

April 28, 2025

At times, Nature Trail’s motivation in this magazine blog is triggered to write a pensive piece and share some reflections of our own with readers. But we’re not religious and certainly not evangelical. The particular trigger in this case has just been a reflection of us here in Katoomba emerging from a widespread impacting torrential rain event over the past […]

Blue Mountains Cultural Centre’s Destroyed Pedestrian Refuge Island

August 6, 2023

Blue Mountains {city} Council seems focused on pedestrian safety of late, finally. This is a positive development for the benefit of improving the safety of locals and visitors alike. So, we note new speed humps in Katoomba town centre area. However, none of which are actual speed humps that require vehicles to slow down without experiencing the most minor of […]

Malaita Wall abseiling death of Outdoor Rec student Oliver Carrick (20) on October 7 at the hands of TAFE

October 29, 2022

At Nature Trail, we happened to be holidaying in New Zealand’s South Island at the time of this latest terrible Blue Mountains tragedy. Photo of our Milford Sound cruise above (Click image to enlarge plasma screen view) We chose and recommend Mitre Peak Cruises for safety first, quality in every way, being local and very personable. Visit: ^https://www.mitrepeak.com/) So, we only […]

Blue Mountains Council’s ‘love local’ hypocrisy towards local businesses

May 30, 2021

The disconnect between government and local small business is stark, perhaps most tangibly in the Blue Mountains between Council and tourist reliant retailers of the upper Blue Mountains. Retailers need to beware of visits from smiling council PR staff, but don’t mention the word ‘COMPENSATION’. Blue Mountains business retailers endure inflated rents due to the ever-increasing Council rates imposed […]

Katoomba now Australia’s Booze Capital

February 21, 2021

Katoomba now Australia’s Booze Capital

Government tokenistic ‘recovery’ forum pacifies suffering tourism in the wake of another bushfire mishandling

March 12, 2020

Here we go again… Bushfires lockdown the entire Blue Mountains The widespread bushfire ‘mega-blaze‘ disaster of Christmas 2019 that was mishandled and allowed to rage and spread over two months, ended up destroying 80 percent of the Greater Blue Mountains World Heritage Area as well as many other natural regions of New South Wales. Dubbed by our sister conservation entity […]