This bush walk takes roughly 1 hour and as the name suggests one of the highlights is the CAVE!!!! Yep - not the kind of cave you would need your overalls and a head torch - phones did us fine (however I wish I downloaded that torch app before I left) but the darkness and unknown added to the excitement of the discovery.
The cave was one of the first discoveries of our walk, and at first glance the cool, damp, blackness ahead did create a "should I go in there" feeling. We did it though, after debating who should go first, Father and Son (who have experience in sporting caves) bravely went on ahead. It's a tame cave but needs a bit of negotiating around the trickling creek running through which makes the rocks damp and slippery and also - watch your head (don't try standing up quickly, chances are you will experience the coolness of the rock above - with your head). It's a decent distance in (for a tame cave) before you reach a small drop and a pool of water. You can hear the water dropping from the pool to the unknown and see a patch of light - enough to spark an intense curiosity as to where it was headed - we turned back through the cave and headed out in our quest to find out. Don't forget to take a moment however, to stay still and turn all your lights off to experience just how dark it is in there!
We headed on down the track and found the second half of the walk much more picturesque as the bush was more natural and less scarred from both fires and some sort of construction work (in the form of big bags of something that looked like it was there to fix or construct paths - looked a bit unsightly). The ferns got thicker and as the path wound back toward the back of the cave the anticipation was high.
Walking along side of the damp cliffs and along a ledge with a bit of a drop (nothing to high) didn't disappoint the boys in variety of landscape, then we neared the end of the walk and we found the TROLL BRIDGE.
Which of course prompted a re-enactment of The Three Billy Goats Gruff before finding the back end of the cave and - the end of the track as suitably signed.
Other highlights included renaming a species of tree which probably already had a perfectly good name - The Corroboree Tree. And using natural bush paint (tree ash from trees burnt in the recent bushfire) as war paint.
Where is it?
The Cave Creek walk is in the Bargo River State Conservation Area, its about 40 minutes from the Mount Annan Botanic Gardens, south down the Hume Motorway or for a more scenic route through Camden, Picton and Tahmoor following Remembrance Drive.
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