{"id":1828,"date":"2019-02-21T22:14:09","date_gmt":"2019-02-22T06:14:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/robertosgelato.com\/robnbob\/?p=1828"},"modified":"2019-02-21T22:13:49","modified_gmt":"2019-02-22T06:13:49","slug":"nullo-mountain","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/robertosgelato.com\/robnbob\/nullo-mountain\/","title":{"rendered":"Nullo Mountain"},"content":{"rendered":"

(actually about 5 km south of Nullo Mtn)<\/p>\n

Thursday 21 Feb 2019<\/p>\n

Walking my bike from the hut back to the road the tires picked up a half dozen goatheads. But also along the sandy road to the entrance of Wollemi National Park another two dozen or so. I know the weed well from back home, so as soon as I would see it I’d stop and check the tires, plus regular checks every 200m or so. Once in Wollemi NP the soil changed and no more puncture vine. Phew, lucky I got them all out right away!<\/p>\n

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In the park the track started to climb steeply and it was pretty well 5 to 7 kms of pushing until Sandy Camp Hut. The track was also pretty rough and eroded which made it very slow going. After the hut it improved, but I could feel my arms and legs from the heavy workout. However, the scenery was spectacular once I got near the top, at Keith’s Lookout.<\/p>\n

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Before I got to the hut I saw a glimpse of a lyrebird crossing the road, the first one I’ve seen on this trip. Had smoko at the hut and signed the guestbook, then continued on. Soon after I got to the aboriginal paintings at “The Livery Stable” cave.<\/p>\n

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Three kms further I came to the 8ft high deer fence and ……… the gate was locked. So much for leaving the owners a phone message two days ago. It’s sort of miserable of them to have this locked gate since some of the fence is rather dilapidated in places. I was able to squeeze through a hole in the fence but unfortunately it was on the wrong side of a very sturdy 4ft fence. So, unhitch BOB, take the bag out of the trailer and lift bike, bag and trailer separately over the fence. All in all a half hour delay.<\/p>\n

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After that the track became a much better gravel road and the going became much easier. But I was pretty well spent and when I noticed a beautiful clean dam at the side of the road 5 kms south of Nullo Mountain with an open gate beside it I decided to camp there. It’s at 1100m and the temperature had dropped to 17\u00ba. I was in low hanging clouds again and it was a bit drizzly too. After a quick washup I made a cup of soup and then had a snooze and warmed up in my tent. Still have to make tea though.<\/p>\n

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My camping area is riddled with wombat holes, some obviously old but others look newer. Will I finally get to see a real live wombat?<\/p>\n

Totals 33k 4:35h 675m+ 305m-<\/p>\n

These totals can be somewhat deceiving. I actually was going from 6:30 until 14:30, so really 8 hours including little rests, smoko, walk to cave, and another snack break.<\/i><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

(actually about 5 km south of Nullo Mtn) Thursday 21 Feb 2019 Walking my bike from the hut back to the road the tires picked up a half dozen goatheads. But also along the sandy road to the entrance of Wollemi National Park another two dozen or so. I know the weed well from back […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1828","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/robertosgelato.com\/robnbob\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1828","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/robertosgelato.com\/robnbob\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/robertosgelato.com\/robnbob\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/robertosgelato.com\/robnbob\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/robertosgelato.com\/robnbob\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1828"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/robertosgelato.com\/robnbob\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1828\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1829,"href":"http:\/\/robertosgelato.com\/robnbob\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1828\/revisions\/1829"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/robertosgelato.com\/robnbob\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1828"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/robertosgelato.com\/robnbob\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1828"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/robertosgelato.com\/robnbob\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1828"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}