Aspley Gorge, Oxley Wild Rivers NP - 25th September

We had left Goolawah behind us and was enroute to Bonshaw, but we were never going to bridge the gap in one day. We had stopped for lunch at Stockyard Creek, a very picturesque picnic area in the middle of 90 km of very winding road. We struck up a conversation with another caravanning couple who were heading home to Port Macquarie, they had been travelling since Easter. As fellow travellers do, they passed on information of places of interest. Their advice was to visit Aspley Gorge in the Oxley Wild Rivers NP and Copeton Dam. We called into Aspley Gorge, did the gorge rim walk, found the camp area and decided to stay the night. It was very dark in the bush camp and with nothing else to do, we went to bed at 7 PM. We were woken at 6 AM by flashes of lightning and crashes of thunder and an extremely heavy downpour of rain that soon deteriorated into heavy hail. All this was very noisy in the Cruiseliner. The storm was all over by 7 AM and the sun came into view.

Stockyard Creek Rest Area on the Oxley Highway

Aspley Gorge

Waterfall at Aspley Gorge

Aspley Gorge rim walk, looking towards the camp area.

Our camp site at Aspley Gorge.