| Our tour starts at six in the morning in the beautiful
Wolgan Valley. Once home to the bustling town of Newnes the valley now lays quiet, the disused pub and ruins of the old shale workes the only signs of a forgotten era. Stretching some five hundred meters above us Old Baldy rises to dominate the cliff line A great bland sheet of sandstone rising up from the valley's edge, a rock climbers dream, a canyoners nightmare. Somehow we must find a route up through the cliff line. We leave Old Baldy to the climbers and head off down stream. A short walk down the river brings us to the start of a popular bushwalking track. The track had been forged up through the cliffs when Newnes was at its
peak
and was used to run a pipeline over the ridge between Newnes and the town
of
Glen Davis. It takes us an hour to trudge up the steep mountain pass and
I can
only stand in awe of those men who hauled up the mass of steel pipe work,
A- frames and braces. |
 İCraig Flynn  İCraig Flynn |
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