Wattle Flat Location

That's in the Styx River State Forest, quite a few camp sites in that part of the world you could easily spend a while there.

Well jeez christ you're a blast from the past. How you going Errol? Whats Peter from York doing these days?

Cheers

Rod

G'day EWrroll

Opposite sides of Australia but we seem to spend a bit oif time in each others back yards, as I have spent a bit of time in Northam over the past few years.

Wattle Flat still exists within Styx River State Forest, there were pit toilets and basic wooden BBQs there the last time we made it in.
The direct access road no longer exists due to a wooden bridge collapsing several years ago but you can get there by travelling a bit further NE on the Styx Forest Rd (towards Point Lookout) and then back tracking once you know which Forest track to head down
The best local knowledge (apart from NSW state Forests office in Armidale) is the nearest village Wollomombi in their local store. Call in there as they have a whole wall plastered with 1:25 000 Topo maps. You can't actually get there from Walcha unless you have a packhorse, about 10 days and did it before the place was turned into a NP 25 years ago.
You take the Coffs Harbour Rd from Armidale, call into the Wollomombi store (now bypassed), then turn off the Coffs Rd down the old Kempsey Rd. After about 20km you turn left (NE) up the Styx Forest Drive to Point Lookout.

It is about 1200m elevation and is quite cool and wet.