For a varied and interesting walk, take the Clover Hill trail. This old logging route leads to Rainbow Falls and three smaller falls upstream on the Macquarie Rivulet. After walking in the dense shade of the forest, suddenly the landscape opens up at Clover Hill – these are the paddocks cleared by farmers over a century ago. High above, the massive cliffs of the escarpment glow yellow and orange in the sunlight. Bushwalkers, birdwatchers and adventurers will love this walk, with its sharp contrast between rainforest and open fields. The huge rainforest trees, eucalypts, beefwood, Illawarra flame trees, cabbage tree palms and tree ferns, home to lyrebirds and goannas, give way to sunny plains where you will often see kangaroos hopping about. Highlights include a spectacular view of the escarpment, and adventurers may wish to scramble upstream at the end of the track to access Rainbow Falls. You will reach the stream shortly after where there will be a small cascade of water flowing down known as rainbow falls. This spot offers great photo opportunities before you cross the river. Just past these falls you will see a section that has large pieces of broken concrete which allows for you to cross the river to continue following the trail. As soon as you cross the river urn right onto the path, this next section of the track does become a little tougher as the tracks are no longer well defined. Leaf scatter covers the worn in paths making it a little difficult to be sure of where you are headed. Following the river up-stream you will start to ascend up hill. The soil on the path is rather loose so you may slide in some sections of the track, wearing the correct footwear is a must. Following the path up, you will see some trails leading back down to the water. There should be 3 of these sections along the track each leading you to a different set of falls. Take these paths down to the water for optimum photo opportunities or a nice place to swim. Return back to the initial path to move further along the track that mostly follows the river upstream. You can follow right along the water however it is more difficult as there are small cliffs. Mulangong falls is one of the waterfalls you are expected to see on this walk, a lovely water fall with water cascading down the steps of rocks(the second image in the gallery below). The final and largest waterfall of this walk it not far up stream from mulangong falls, however it is the most difficult part of the track and the reason why this article is not posted as a walk, From mulangong falls you will need to work your way back into the forest and find your way through the forest. There is no track from here as most people turn around at the point and miss out on the nicest part of this area. There are a few pink ribbons on some of the trees that you can use to help guide you, however they can be difficult to spot at times leaving you to try and work your way through. Since there is no actual track through here please take care and try to reduce your impact on the environment that you're hiking through. The track then leads to an outstanding waterfall Clover falls.
The cache requirement to log this one are very simple: Just add a picture of you/or something of you at the posted coords!
- Be well prepared- the total hike is almost 10 km- there is no proper phone reception at lots of places on this hike- it is NOT a simple bushwalk and all attending do so on their own risk- make use of the given waypoints- if you stuff up and call emergencies, you will have to face me
Virtual Rewards 2.0 - 2019/2020
This Virtual Cache is part of a limited release of Virtuals created between June 4, 2019 and June 4, 2020. Only 4,000 cache owners were given the opportunity to hide a Virtual Cache. Learn more about Virtual Rewards 2.0 on the Geocaching Blog.