Sunday, Jul 15, 2012 at 13:56
Hi Steve
If collecting ‘points’ of Australia (excluding small islands), I would choose N, E, S and W rather than ‘corners’ although this has not been important to us. When visiting the
Shark Bay area we did not go to
Steep Point, and when in Tasmania while we went to
Cockle Creek we did not take the four to five hour walk to the
South East Cape from
Cockle Creek. To reach the southernmost point of Australia involves taking a further walk on an unmarked trail which is recommended for experienced hikers. Keeping away from the populated coastal areas in NSW we also missed
Cape Byron, and
Cape York is on our possible future agenda.
All the same,
Cape Leeuwin which is the south western corner is worth including on a south west tour. What point would you consider the north west corner?
Another point to collect is
West Cape Howe; the southernmost part of Western Australia. Much of this National Park can only be accessed by a challenging sandy four wheel drive track, some of which has had matting placed on the dunes and even that is degraded in
places causing a few anxious moments for some of our group. We went with friends as it was not a track for our F250. This took us to a rugged black
rock coastline. One of our group who had grown up in
Albany told us how they used to lower themselves down on ropes in the deep narrow chasm known as The
Chimney to go fishing.
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