Bushwalk Australia

Last summer I noticed a taped track leading from Prion camp heading to the north.
It wasn't the main SCT and it wasn't the toilet track.

I followed it for 500m but turned back when I couldn't work out where it led.

Does anyone know where it leads to?

Feel free to PM the answer if you'd prefer to tell in private:

No-one?

It could be anything from idiots to PWS monitoring some species of animal or bird.

Or it could be an insane way to climb Pindars peak.......

ILUVSWTAS wrote:It could be anything from idiots to PWS monitoring some species of animal or bird.

Or it could be an insane way to climb Pindars peak.......

I know a few people insane enough to try that. Well, if they didn't already have the points, that is.
Actually, it would be rather interesting to follow it for a while . . . from Prion it could just as easily be another way up PB or VC or Wylly . . .

I'll have to follow it next time I'm there (it might be gone by then though ).

Trying to think - not sure if I recall seeing this when I was there two years ago but that could be my erratic memory. Did get momentarily geographically embarrassed at Prion and ended up at the dunny rather than on the main track out, and then on another pad that ended at an isolated tentsite and . . . hmmmmmmm, it may have been there then; I definitely did some wandering around looking for the track.

Many years ago there was a tapped track to the North that led to water.

wander wrote:Many years ago there was a tapped track to the North that led to water.

That'll be what it was. The tape was quite old.

I'm not very familiar with the area but from Chapman, could it be the track to Precipitous Bluff?

kestert wrote:I'm not very familiar with the area but from Chapman, could it be the track to Precipitous Bluff?

There is no track from Prion Beach to Precipitous. You have to wade up the lagoon. I suspect it was a track to the creek not far up the lagoon too.

Kestert, I can recommend the wade most highly, a nice summers day with the sun shining down really warms up the dark, shallow water.

This taped route is the short-cut to get water from the creek that is to the north-west of the camp. It gets you to a spot where there is a plank across the creek to make it easier to get water - where the creek is flowing a bit.

I was at this camp for 4 days a few years ago while waiting to get back out of the lagoon with a sea kayak and found this short-cut when getting water each day. The water didn't taste great but it was less unpleasant up past the plank across the creek (compared to the creek closer to the lagoon).

I only saw the tapes go as far as the water spot at the creek. It doesn't lead to any easy route to PB. Wading the lagoon (even at high water levels) is easier than pushing through the scrub behind the camp.

-Matt

msw wrote:This taped route is the short-cut to get water from the creek that is to the north-west of the camp. It gets you to a spot where there is a plank across the creek to make it easier to get water - where the creek is flowing a bit.

I was at this camp for 4 days a few years ago while waiting to get back out of the lagoon with a sea kayak and found this short-cut when getting water each day. The water didn't taste great but it was less unpleasant up past the plank across the creek (compared to the creek closer to the lagoon).

I only saw the tapes go as far as the water spot at the creek. It doesn't lead to any easy route to PB. Wading the lagoon (even at high water levels) is easier than pushing through the scrub behind the camp.

-Matt

Thanks Matt. A perfect answer!