Corin Dam – Namadgi

Canberra has four main sources of water and consequentially four dams. Three of these the Cotter, Bendora and Corin Dams are on the Cotter River, itself little more than a mountain stream, which flows through the western part of Namadgi National Park. Bendora and Corin (the subject of this review) Dams are within the National Park.

Square Rock Walk – Namadgi

The Square Rock walk in Namadgi National Park is a 9kms return walk from the start at Square Rock car park on Corin Rd, just past the Corin Forest Mountain Retreat, or 10kms if you include a easy 500m side-trip to the Orroral Valley Lookout, as we did.

Gibraltar Falls

Gibraltar Falls, one of the highest in the Australian Capital Territory, is a 50m high set of cascading falls in the northern part of Namadgi National Park, best combined with a visit to Tidbinbilla Nature Reserve rather than other parts of Namadgi, due to logistics of getting there.

Yankee Hat Walk (Paintings)

Probably the best known aboriginal rock art in the ACT is the Yankee Hat paintings in the Gudgenby Valley within Namadgi National Park – about 90 minutes drive from the centre of Canberra. Carbon dating of deposits in the Yankee Hat rock shelter date the site at over 800 yrs old and possibly up to 3700 years old.

Blazes on the Border

This walk, along a small section of the Australian Capital Territory and New South Wales border in the south of Namadgi National Park is not an official walk within the Park. Accordingly, it is not marked on maps nor is it signposted.

Westerman’s Homestead – Settlers Track

If you walk the 9kms long Settlers Track in Namadgi National Park, which I strongly encourage you to do, you will encounter three old, restored dwellings along the way – Brayshaws Hut, Waterhole Hut and Westerman’s Homestead. This review is on Westerman’s Homestead located just over 7kms from the start of the walk if you follow the loop walk in an anticlockwise direction, as recommended.

Waterhole Hut and Stockyard

If you walk the 9kms long Settlers Track in Namadgi National Park, which I strongly encourage you to do, you will encounter three old, restored dwellings along the way – Brayshaw’s Hut, Waterhole Hut and Westerman’s Homestead. This review is on Waterhole Hut and a nearby stock yard, both located about four kilometres from the start of the walk if you follow the loop walk in an anticlockwise direction, as recommended.

Ring Barking in the Bobeyan Valley

One of the wonderful things about travelling is that one continually comes across, and learns new things. As I was making my away around along the Settlers Track in Namadgi National Park I noticed that many trees, all dead, has ‘rings’ around them, about a metre up from the ground.

Brayshaws Hut – Settlers Track

If you walk the 9kms long Settlers Track in Namadgi National Park, which I strongly encourage you to do, you will encounter three old, restored dwellings along the way – Brayshaw’s Hut, Waterhole Hut and Westerman’s Homestead. This review is on Brayshaw’s Hut, the first dwelling you will encounter if you walk the loop walk in an anticlockwise direction, as recommended.

Tin Dish – Bobeyan Subsidised School

The isolated Bobeyan Valley, in the southern part of the Namadgi National Park, in the southern border area of the Australian Capital Territory, was first settled by Europeans in the 1830s. Even today the area is fairly isolated, being bypassed by the main highway and some 50kms from Tharwa village and 90kms from central Canberra to the North and 30 kilometres from the small township of Adaminaby to the south.