christophermoore wrote:This website suggests that it's part of the Packsaddlers property (Carlon's Farm) - it refers to a hut there as Bert Carlon's.
That may once have been the case - but I am pretty sure it is no longer so. I understand the property is still a private inholding and I think it is owned by an individual from Oberon. I think he accesses it by helicopter. I think the actual extent of the property is much bigger than the small area near the hut - but does not cover all of Kanongaroo - so there are plenty of places to camp in still.
It was used by the Carlon family years ago for their packsaddler horse tours. They would take horses down Breakfast Creek, then down the Coxs River and stay at the Kanongaroo Hut. The other access route was over the Wild Dog Mountains via the horsetrack - from Medlow Gap via Mobbs Soak to Yellow Dog and then down Yellow Pup. This track was cut around 1975 and closely followed the original bushwalkers track (some trees were cut down and logs cleared too allow easier passage of horses, and the switchbacks were put in on Yellow Pup rather than the bushwalkers track that went directly up the spine of the ridge). More intrepid horse tours would go up kanangra Creek (to the "Two Kanangras" - the junction of Kanangra and Whalania Creeks) and even further upstream and over Gabes Gap into Gingra Creek, and back via Veyret's Horsetrack over the Low Gangerang Range. Claude Veyret was a good bushman and horseman working for the Carlon family and knew a lot about the area. He was a very interesting fellow.
I think the present owner may use Kanongaroo for trout fishing.
Dave