Weddin-Mountains-Nationalpark

The Weddin Mountains National Park is a national park in the east of the Australian state of New South Wales, 291 km west of Sydney. The Weddin Mountains are a small, crescent-shaped mountain range that sweeps around in a north-south direction to the east has steep, rocky crashes and slowly leaking out into the plain to the west. There, you can still find a small patch of primary vegetation, which is escaping because of its inaccessible location of cultivation. Geologically, the area belongs to the Lachlan Fold.

The park was populated by the Aborigines of the Wiradjuri for thousands of years and was later a hideout for robbers bush. Furthermore, a historical farm can be visited there, in which a man and his wife have made ​​of any small piece of wire something useful.

The area is now often served by commercial airliners, as the main flight corridor from Sydney to Adelaide passes over these mountains.

Driveway

The Weddin Mountains National Park is best reached via Grenfell. If you drive on the Mid - Western Highway from there to the west, you can see signs on Holy Camp and Ben Hall's Cave.

Fauna

In the Weddin Mountains National Park 216 animal species have been observed. The majority of them are birds. There live there but also three wallabies, including a threatened, the Brush Tailed Wallaby rock. The list of species includes honey -eater ( Painted Honeyeater ), the Swift Parrot, Little Lori and the beautiful parakeet. An entrained animals can be found cats, rabbits, foxes, goats and sheep.

Bands of robbers

Ben Hall (1837-1865), a Bush Ranger who, with his gang plundered in the 1850s, the area around Forbes and Grenfell, took the Weddin Mountains as a retreat. He lived in a cave in the northwest of the present park together in his followers, John Gilbert and Frank Gardiner. It is said that Ben Hall had buried a treasure here, one has however not been found.

Seaton 's Historic Farm

In the park you can visit the Seaton 's Historic Farm. It shows how a man and his wife have made ​​of any small piece of wire something useful. Jim Seaton built three kilometers kangaroo proof fence by hand with posts of small trees, which he found on the ground and were neither rotten nor infested by insects. In the late 1920s the Seaton infected from their country, and during the Great Depression, the farm was built. The times and the country were hard, and it shows on the buildings. The scales have walls made of corrugated iron ausgewalztem (so it was longer). One of the shed is full of old wire, sheet metal, bottles and everything you can imagine. All old machines and equipment are still there, where they were when the family sold the estate in 1980 to the government. The Farm is a unique place where you can still see what it was like in poorer farmers beginning and middle of the last century.

Ben Hall's Cave

In the vicinity of Seaton 's Historic Farm are Ben and Ben Halls Halls Camping Picnic Area. The picnic and barbecue facilities are large enough to allow the use of Camping stoves and barbecue grills own and to light a campfire. From there it is only a short walk to Ben Hall's Cave.

Holy Camp

Holy Camp located 19 kilometers south-west of Grenfell. The coordinates are 33.897857 degrees South and 148.002901 degrees East. The last 3.8 km of access road are not fixed. Here is one of the entrances to the park with toilets, parking, picnic tables and fire pits. Camping is permitted. There is a small rain water tank which is filled from the top end of the toilet, but you can not rely on the fact that it is full. From here you can hike to the Lookout Eualdrie and Peregrine Lookout. Around the park you can see many wild animals, Buntwarane and skinks day and Brushtail Possums and cave - Frogmouth at night.

Hiking

The Eualdrie hiking trail leads from the Holy Camp 2.6 km (2 ½ hour round trip) to Eualdrie Lookout on the Peregrine Lookout ( 1 ½ hour round trip). The Peregrine Lookout is located just south of the parking lot and from there the trail leads back to the north, so that the Eualdrie Lookout is located north of the parking lot. From there you can to Eualdrie Trig (750 m high) and then down to Ben Halls Cave continue.