14 August 2010 Nursery Swamp
Map: Rendezvous Creek 1:25000
Getting There
This walk was organised and led by Jenny and Rob H as a CBC walk:
Saturday 14 August: Rendezvous Creek cross-over – M/R. Nursery Creek car park, top end Nursery Swamp, Rendezvous Creek, Boboyan Road near Gudgenby River. This is usually a very popular trip with a car shuttle. Map: Rendezvous Creek 1:25,000. Leaders: Jenny and Rob H. Transport: ~$40 per car.
Photographs
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Walk
Track a | Track b |
We left the Nursery Swamp car park at 8.30am and ambled up the Nursery Swamp Walking Track. The plan was to do a loop across to Rendezvous Creek. Confirmed where Rob likes to take off the track to head to the footpad to Rendezvous Creek - at a felled burnt tree which used to contain a wild bees' nest just before a hard left turn in the track. A nice wander down the side of the swamp, the low cloud clearing to a beautiful day. I had the W-G sites NA34 Nursery Swamp stockyard and NA35 Rock shelter, but nothing at the locations (will need to come back to do a proper search).
Turned W up the drainage line a the S end of the swamp and headed up towards the saddle between SH1337 and Nursery Hill. Along here a party member collided with a branch and by morning tea time 100m from the saddle there was much blood and an ugly leg puncture. We all appreciated Rob taking authority - the wound was dressed, no thought of splitting the party and we all headed back.
1 Nursery Swamp | Walking the S end of Nursery Swamp | Nursery Hill above Nursery Swamp |
A lunch stop at the saddle in the NSWT where it starts to go down to the Orroral Valley.
View NW up Nursery Swamp to SH1447 |
Home early. Thanks Rob and Jenny. Ably navigated by Dan and Phillip. Good company from Cynthia, Peter, Peter and Tom.
The result - three internal stitches and 10 external stitches with 10 days off work with no pressure at all on his leg.
Distance: 15km Climb: 475m. Time: 8.30am - 2.05pm (call it 5 and a half hours), with 1hr of stops.
Grading: M/M
KMZ file for Google Earth/Maps: Nursery Swamp
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