SCHOOL OF HARD KNOCKS
THE rugged Wollemi wilderness has lured me in again with its contrasting promises of serenity and adventure. I was here with a group last spring but this time I’m on a solo walk and my goal is the remote junction of the Wollangambe and Bowens Creek canyons. I’m an experienced bushwalker and have planned this trip carefully. I set off from Mt Irvine around 8am one sunny morning in mid-January, first on the track to Tesselated Pavements then head north along the light track that comes and goes a while longer, meandering through rocky scrub.
Soon the landscape becomes deeply dissected, and one must scramble up rocks and descend into gullies beyond. A sharp rise through a tangle of fallen branches and burnt tea trees brings me to a rock platform with precipitous cliffs overlooking Bowens Creek. A long descent follows and
