Today Spence and I did the walk from Paten Rd in The Gap to the Simpson's Fall Picnic ground. This walk starts near our home, so it is the walk we do most often. Nonetheless, it's been some months since I've done it.
We started at 11.30am and finished at 1.10pm, after taking our time and stopping to look at various tree and plants along the way. Normally we take the Maculata Track from the pond at grid 966624, over the un-named hill with the comms tower on the summit (grid 957626), to cross Sir Samuel Griffith Drive at the start of the Stringybark Track. For a change we took the Bardon Trail passing directly beneath the comms tower. We haven't taken this track before, so it was interesting to see the tower and the discarded machinery nearby.
Everywhere there was new growth of grass, bushes, and trees due to the recent rains. However, despite the rain the water level in the pond was still about 1.5m below the outflow level. The eucalypts we saw had nearly all completed their shedding of bark, and some had striking new bark of green or pink.
The falls were flowing (finally!), but only just - maybe 1 litre per minute across the whole width of the cascade.
Here's a map of the area:
Here's a capture of the same map as an overlay on Google Earth:
And some photos:
