Finishing up our coastal sojourn we head west. Our plan was to come back down the western line.

As usual we had planned to pack a fair bit in to a short time.

The Western line probably isn’t in the forefront of most peoples minds as a summer trip. We are not most people

Are we crazy? asks one of us

Yeah. says the other as if it was the most obvious answer in the history of obvious answers.

Our first destination was Bald Rock.

I’d never heard of it but Kylie said it was something we had to see.

It’s right on the Qld border and part of the New England Granite belt, which was formed about 250million years ago. It’s called the New England granite belt because, you know, nothing resembles Old England more than goannas running across massive granite domes…

Anyhoo

We pull into the car park and cook up a breakfast then make our way up to the trailhead.

There are several walk options, from super short to all day. We opt for the summit walk.

A reasonably short walk leads us to the base of the massive granite dome. This point is wheel chair accessible and if its as far as you get it still bloody impressive.

A mountain of granite towers above.

White reflectors stuck on the rock were the only indicators of a path up.

Of course we follow them. Mostly

It was steep.

Jokes

It’s a short, punchy walk up to the summit and it was spectacular.

Rising 260m above the surrounding terrain, Bald Rock is the largest granite monolith in Australia and the colours are amazing, even on an overcast morning.

We share the summit with several other groups. Families, grey nomads and, us. (There is a song in there somewhere)

We return to the car and back track a little to our camp site in Boonoo Boonoo.