Wentworth Pass walk

It's a long way down!

 It's a wonderful walk. I've just discovered that it's only 5.6km, but it took about 4 hours and feels a lot longer. That's mainly because of all the ladders that you have to climb down.  I've always been amazed at the crazy people that made this walk - it's simply chopped out of the cliff edges with sheer drops of 100m or more on one side.  It's difficult to find any information on the history of the walk online, but I have just come across this site which even includes a movie!  Apparently the walk was created by James Somerfield Murray in 1906 (actually he built the National Pass walk not the Wentworth Pass walk, but they're the same for the most dramatic bit).  It's shocking -- there isn't even a wikipedia page about why this guy decided to spend 2 years blowing up bits of the cliff to make a walk.  Anyway, he did and it's great. We didn't see too many animals, but we were concentrating on not falling off the ladders.  However, we did spot two rosellas, a flock of black cockatoos and heaps of white cockatoos.  The most incredible part was at the bottom of the valley where we heard the cicadas. They were really loud and we were with them for at least 1 hour.

There are lots of different species of plants in this picture (including the mountain devil)

A very large tree (turpentine?)