On our drive back from Sydney to Uralla we finally
stopped at Burning Mountain, a place we have been interested in visiting
for over a year. Burning Mountain is a nature preserve just off the New
England Highway just north of Wingen. From the nature preserve to
Uralla is about a two hour drive, so although it is in the New England
region is is still pretty far from our backyard.
We saw a lot of kangaroos on our hike! Probably the most kangaroos we've ever seen on a single walk.
The
name of the preserve comes from the naturally ignited burning coal
seam, located approximately 100 feet underground. It is estimated it has
been burning for some 6,000 years.
The
mountain itself is a fair walk outside the rest stop. The signage
indicates you should give yourself two hours for the return trip, but
that may be a bit generous as we did the entire trip in about 50
minutes. As we had two hours to drive to get home we took the walk
rather briskly
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| A very green pond ... that doesn't seem right. |
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| Lots of kangaroos on the walk. Can you spot the one here? |
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| The burning part of Burning Mountain |
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| Mum and joey |
We saw a lot of kangaroos on our hike! Probably the most kangaroos we've ever seen on a single walk.
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