Last updated 28Jul25
Toad’s Folly/The Chasm
A pinch point in the Murrumbidgee River near Tuggeranong.
Location of upstream end: UTM 685809-6079134 (MGA94), Tuggeranong 8727-3S 1:25000
Location of downstream end: UTM 685740-6079186 (MGA94), Tuggeranong 8727-3S 1:25000.
Toad’s Folly July 1025
Visits: 27 Jul 25, 2 Oct 23, 4 Feb 17.
Access:
From Tuggeranong via the true right side of the river, as in 2 Oct 23.
From Point Hut Crossing West via the Murrumbidgee Corridor on the true left of the river, as in 4 Feb 17 and 27 Jul 25.
Documentation:
• Geocache GC5BFG6 Rocky Raceway. Note from cacher Noikmeister: “Apparently these are grade IV rapids and there have been two deaths on this section of the river. Even the professional white water rafting mobs portage around it.”
• Rob Horsfield: “At that point the Murrumbidgee narrows and drops down an incline with a large boulder blocking the bottom. With a good flow of water it is spectacular. We started our trip down Red Rock gorge on lilos immediately below the boulder. I first visited the place around late 1977; there was a neatly painted sign calling the feature “Toad’s Folley” (which I assumed was Toad as per ‘Wind in the Willows’). I sighted the sign in deteriorating condition several times subsequently and it was gone perhaps by the mid ‘80s.”