Sunday, August 18, 2013

Illawarra Fly

Today I bundled the family up and we headed down through Bowral to Robertson on our way to the Illawarra Fly tree top walk. I knew that we would be heading to a great biking area and tried to convince the wife to let me ride down. I failed and I had to do the family thing today and leave the bike for another day. Still we were having lunch at the Robertson Pie shop which is a mecha for motorcyclists on weekends. Why you may ask? The pie shop is at the top of Macquarie Pass which is an 8 kilometer stretch of hot mixed motorcycling heaven with every type of bend you could want with the Pie shop a great place to stop and get something to eat and talk to other like minded bikers.

Me and the wife played the guessing game of how many bikes there would be at the Pie shop. She said 5, I said 20-30. When we pulled in there must have been at least 50+ bikes there today. And why not the weather was perfect for riding.




After a fantastic Pepper Steak pie at the pie shop it was onto the Illawarra Fly. This is a tree top walk nestled on the Illawarra escarpment high above the townships below. The walk through the trees was some 30 meters up off the  forest floor with the highest point being the spiral tower which was 50 meters above the ground. All of this some 700 meters above sea level. The views here are quite spectacular.


Entry to the tree top walk


Gully Gum Trees


Spiral Tower




The views out over the escarpment were fantastic. You could see all the way up to Wollongong and beyond to the Royal National park and all the way out to the Tasman Sea. Couldn't see any kiwis though.

The tree below was covered in some weird looking moss type thing. It made for a good photo.


After finishing up at the tree top walk there was a nearby water fall that I wanted to have a look at. We had a nice afternoon tea at the picnic area at Carrington Falls. Georgia took her shoe's off and wandered into Kangaroo River just above the falls. Luck she didn't go over because the falls are 90 meters high. The river then flows on through guess where? Yep Kangaroo Valley despite its name it has some awesome motorcycle roads through it. 





Carrington Falls





11 comments:

  1. That looks like a great way to spend the day. I see a green zx-14...nice.
    I bet the view from the top of the Spiral Tower is fantastic!

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    1. There's also a black one in there too if you look closely. The view was very good from the top of the tower.

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  2. Wow, what a stunning scenery. And all these bikes...

    All in all not too bad a location for a family outing, I guess.

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    1. Sure was Sonja, I wanted my bike so bad when I saw all the bikes parked up and one's coming and going.

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  3. Awesome tree-top walk Steve, didn't realise there was one in your neck of the woods. We did the one in S-W Australia last year and it was a wonderful experience.

    P.S Do you hate seeing bikes when you're in the car? I do - makes me want to be on mine!

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    1. The tree top walk was bloody good. It would have been a better day if I had gotten the chance to ride down there. It looks like I am the same as you I'm afraid. When I saw all the bike a was wishing I had mine there.

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  4. Nice day out Bro. I will definitely be taking the kids to the Illawarra Fly this Christmas.

    Nice photos. Especially that first one with the mountain bike on the back of the car. He is the only person in the photo that earnt their pie that morning....!

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    1. Pie's aren't earnt, there bought with money. Money is a thing that can be exchanged for goods and services, of which pies are goods. They are tasty too.

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  5. So Jealous. Sure we have waterfalls here, but we don't have any tree-top walks or yummy pie places at the end of awesome motorcycle roads. Sigh.....

    Thanks for sharing.

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  6. That looks spectacular, did you go up the spiral tower? I got half way up one in Vic once but it was swaying and freaked me so I came back down.

    Yay for pies and bikes, it wouldn't have worried me that much not riding, at least you got to oggle some nice bikes. Or maybe I'd have been at little bit wistful :D

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