Sunday Morning Walk to Cobah Point (Hawkesbury River)

This morning’s walk began at dawn over Kuring-gai Chase

On the track to Cobah Point- early morning mist; while the temperature is already in the low 20s there is a definite sense of autumn in the air with all this mist, and – as you will see- with all the early morning spiders:

Here the radiant rays of the sun finally push through the bush

The sun hits the track, rising rapidly…

And this track, despite the fact that spring is well behind us, is chock full with flowers… all along the way. Here are pink spider flowers (grevillea sericia):

F ine leaved (or pine leaved) geebungs:

 

Old Man Banksia flowers (Banksia Serrata) still fresh and new, contrasting with last year’s growth:

And a track dense with waist high flowers on both sides:

 

And spider webs like you have never seen, catching the early rays of the sun:

Some of the webs were around 1.5-2 metres across:

And then the track, before it gets to Cobah Point itself reaches a peak from where you can see across the whole of the Hawkesbury valley:

The track then climbs into some forest country where the soil is deep, the Sydney red gums (Angophoras) are massive, imposing, magnificent- these are my all-time favourite trees, the way their branches soar and curl like a dancer’s limbs:

And now, after nearly 9 kms, Cobah Point is just around the corner: we have finally made it!