 Winter at Wattamolla beach.
 View from near Burning Palms on the Royal National Park coast walk
The Royal National Park is a national park in New South Wales, Australia, 29 km south of Sydney. The World Conservation Union or International Union for the Conservation of Nature and Natural Resources (IUCN) is an international organization dedicated to natural resource conservation. ...
Brecon Beacons National Park, Wales, UK A national park is a reserve of land, usually declared and owned by a national government, protected from most human development and pollution. ...
Image File history File links Locator_Dot. ...
Image File history File links Australia_Locator_Blank. ...
Capital Sydney Government Constitutional monarchy Governor Professor Marie Bashir Premier Morris Iemma (ALP) Federal representation - House seats 50 - Senate seats 12 Gross State Product (2004-05) - Product ($m) $305,437 (1st) - Product per capita $45,153/person (4th) Population (End of March 2006) - Population 6,817,100 (1st) - Density 8. ...
The Sydney Opera House on Sydney Harbour Sydney (pronounced ) is the most populous city in Australia, with a metropolitan area population of over 4. ...
1879 (MDCCCLXXIX) was a common year starting on Wednesday (see link for calendar). ...
The New South Wales National Parks and Wildlife Service (NPWS) is part of the Department of Environment and Conservation - the main government conservation agency in New South Wales, Australia. ...
Image File history File links Download high resolution version (768x1024, 94 KB) Summary Description: Source: own work Author: Klaus-Dieter Liss (Kdliss) Date: 28. ...
Image File history File links Download high resolution version (768x1024, 94 KB) Summary Description: Source: own work Author: Klaus-Dieter Liss (Kdliss) Date: 28. ...
Image File history File linksMetadata Download high resolution version (1536x1024, 1201 KB)Author: Dimitri Koussa Location: Royal National Park, Australia Description: View from between Burning Palms and Palm Jungle. ...
Image File history File linksMetadata Download high resolution version (1536x1024, 1201 KB)Author: Dimitri Koussa Location: Royal National Park, Australia Description: View from between Burning Palms and Palm Jungle. ...
Burning Palms is a beach in the Royal National Park, south of Sydney, Australia. ...
Image File history File linksMetadata Download high resolution version (1536x1024, 1006 KB)Author: Dimitri Koussa Location: Garie Beach, Royal National Park, Australia Description: Late afternoon view of Garie Beach from nearby cliffs. ...
Image File history File linksMetadata Download high resolution version (1536x1024, 1006 KB)Author: Dimitri Koussa Location: Garie Beach, Royal National Park, Australia Description: Late afternoon view of Garie Beach from nearby cliffs. ...
Brecon Beacons National Park, Wales, UK A national park is a reserve of land, usually declared and owned by a national government, protected from most human development and pollution. ...
Capital Sydney Government Constitutional monarchy Governor Professor Marie Bashir Premier Morris Iemma (ALP) Federal representation - House seats 50 - Senate seats 12 Gross State Product (2004-05) - Product ($m) $305,437 (1st) - Product per capita $45,153/person (4th) Population (End of March 2006) - Population 6,817,100 (1st) - Density 8. ...
The Sydney Opera House on Sydney Harbour Sydney (pronounced ) is the most populous city in Australia, with a metropolitan area population of over 4. ...
Founded in 1879 by Sir John Robertson, Premier of New South Wales, it is the world's second oldest purposed national park, the first usage of the term "national park" after Yellowstone in the United States. Its original name was The National Park, but it was renamed in 1955 after a visit by Elizabeth II, Queen of Australia. Yellowstone National Park is a U.S. National Park located in the western states of Wyoming, Montana, and Idaho. ...
1955 (MCMLV) was a common year starting on Saturday of the Gregorian calendar. ...
Elizabeth II (Elizabeth Alexandra Mary Windsor; born 21 April 1926) is Queen of sixteen sovereign states, holding each crown and title equally. ...
Queen Elizabeth II, the current Queen of Australia. ...
Overview The park includes the settlements of Audley, Maianbar and Bundeena. There was once a railway line connected to the City Rail Illawarra line but this has now closed. The Sydney Tramway Museum, at Loftus currently runs a tram line on this alotment. Audley is a suburb of Sydney, Australia. ...
Maianbar is a village on the outskirts of Sydney, Australia, within the Sutherland Shire. ...
Bundeena is a village on the outskirts of southern Sydney, in the state of New South Wales, Australia. ...
Official logo of the CityRail network The waiting area at Central Railway Station, the main station on the CityRail network Old-style manual train indicator boards at Concord West. ...
The Illawarra Line and South Coast Line are located in Sydney, Australia, and are two rail lines in CityRails south coast network. ...
The Sydney Tramway Museum is a operating tramway museum, located in Loftus in the southern suburbs of Sydney, Australia. ...
Loftus - Side Platform on Double Line Loftus is a CityRail railway station on Sydneys Illawarra railway line. ...
Audley can be accessed by road, and there are several railway stations on the outskirts of the park. Bundeena and Maianbar can also be accessed by road through the park or by the passenger ferry service from Cronulla. Road access is also possible from the south at Otford near Stanwell Park. Looking towards Cronulla Beach, with the Cronulla surf life savers club building at the top left Cronulla is a beachside suburb, in southern Sydney, in the state of New South Wales, Australia. ...
Otford is a a town in New South Wales, Australia located near the Sydney metropolitan area. ...
Stanwell Park is a northern coastal village of the Wollongong plain, south of Sydney, Australia. ...
There are numerous walking trails, BBQ areas & picnic sites throughout the park. Mountain Biking is allowed on Fire Trails and on specially marked tracks within the Park. The specially marked Mountain Biking tracks are bi-directional; care should be taken when traversing these trails. There is a car park just within the Park to leave vehicles. A fee of $11.00 Australian applies when taking a car into the Park. Mountain biker riding in the Arizona desert. ...
Mountain biker riding in the Arizona desert. ...
One popular walk is the coast walk. It is a two-day walk, involving walking from Bundeena to North Era and camping for the night. The next day's walk proceeds to Otford, where there is a railway station. This walk is often done as part of the Duke of Edinburgh's Award. Otford is a a town in New South Wales, Australia located near the Sydney metropolitan area. ...
The logo of the Duke of Edinburghs Award. ...
There were big bushfires in 1994 that burnt large parts of the park. These areas are being rehabilitated.
There are camping sites at Bundeena and North Era. These are the only places where camping is permitted within the park, and they are regulated with a booking/registration system, which requires pre-booking a site.
Geography, flora and fauna The Royal National contains a wide variety of terrain. Roughly, the park moves from coastal cliffs broken by beaches and small inlets to an ancient high plateau broken by extensive and deep river valleys. The river valleys drain from south to north where they run into Port Hacking, the extensive but generally shallow harbour inlet which forms the northern border of the park. When looking across the park from east to west (or vice versa) the rugged folds of valley after valley fade into the distance.
Coastal heathland Running the full coastal length of the park is a coastal heathland characterised by hardy, low-growing, salt-tolerant shrubs that spread across rocky, hard terrain with very little topsoil. The coast itself is composed mostly of high cliffs reaching a height of nearly two hundred metres at the southern end. These cliffs are puntuated by a number of fine, sandy beaches open to the ocean and providing fine swimming and surfing. Several of the beaches can be reached by road, others only by several hours bush walking. There are a small number of rocky coves. The beaches, two of which have volunteer surf life saving clubs and large car parks, are amongst the most visited areas of the park.
Exposed uplands Moving farther inland the terrain rises to a series of very rocky ridges and plateaus characterised by hardy, low-growing shrubs and very poor, rocky soil. These ridges are the remnants of an ancient, much larger plateau that has been deeply eroded into an extensive series of river valleys
Valley sides On the sides of the steep river valleys that punctuate the uplands the terrain changes to exposed rock with collected pockets of soil. Although still fairly rocky, a large number of eucalyptus and other tree species are prevalent. Small streams are to be found reasonably frequently and understory plants cohabitate with the larger trees, although the terrain is still fairly open and easy to move through. Tree heights in this area reach an average maximum of about ten metres. The plant mix and geography conditions in this area are typical of much of the terrain in the coastal areas of New South Wales. Capital Sydney Government Constitutional monarchy Governor Professor Marie Bashir Premier Morris Iemma (ALP) Federal representation - House seats 50 - Senate seats 12 Gross State Product (2004-05) - Product ($m) $305,437 (1st) - Product per capita $45,153/person (4th) Population (End of March 2006) - Population 6,817,100 (1st) - Density 8. ...
Valley floors With rich soils and good supply of water the valley floors are cooler and more humid than any other part of the park. Large tree species such as Australian Cedar and the larger Eucalypt species dominate. Tree height reach 30 metres or more and a rich understory of fern, wattles, and other medium-size plants proliferate. Some small areas are classified as temperate rainforest. These areas are characterised by dense groves of very large trees including the iconic Port Jackson and Moreton Bay Fig trees. The absence of light leads to a lack of undergrowth other than a profusion of ferns. These are among the more popular areas for visitors to the park. The park service is also very careful to protect these areas due to their general rarity in the hot, arid Australian landscape. Binomial name Ficus macrophylla Desf. ...
Park highlights - Audley - Audley is a large, flat area at the base of one of the larger valleys in the park. The main road into the park from the north drops quickly from the heights to Audley, where it crosses the Hacking River on a weir before climbing up the other side of the valley to continue further into the park. Audley was developed in the late 19th century as a picnic area for Sydneysiders on a day trip. A large, heritage listed timber boathouse from that time still exists on the western bank of the weir and currently rents rowing boats and canoes to allow leisurely exploration of the upper reaches of the river. It also rents mountain bikes. A timber dance hall built in the early 20th century on the eastern bank is available for functions. Large picnic areas, grassy meadows and a café, rest rooms and a colony of hungry ducks complete the picnic picture. Audley is as popular with families today as it was in the 19th century. After a heavy rain the weir floods, closing the road and forcing the residents of Bundeena to drive an extra 30 kilometres to the southern end of the park if they wish to drive to Sydney.
- Eagle Rock - A unique rock formation near Curracarong, about halfway down the length of the park on the coast. It is a large rock outcrop that looks like an eagle's head when viewed from the side. The other remarkable feature of Curracarong are the several waterfalls which tumble over the cliffs and into the sea over one hundred metres below.
- Garie Beach - One of the most popular coastal surf beaches in the park.
- Wattamolla beach has a large lagoon tucked behind the beach, which then enters the sea via an ankle-deep stream at one end of the beach. Families enjoy playing in the calm lagoon with their young children whilst adults enjoy the clean, even surf. Substantial parking and a canteen serving refreshments on summer weekends are also there.
- 'Figure 8' pool south of Burning Palms
- Werrong beach is one of the legal naturist beaches in the park. It faces east and the first sun of the day falls upon it. The hill behind the beach is covered in trees and undergrowth. Those who camp overnight can be woken at dawn by wallabies wandering around your campsite. This is really getting back to nature.
- Lady Carrington Drive - Lady Carrington Drive was one of the early roads through the park. It runs south from Audley, roughly following the Hacking River upstream from the weir for a distance of about 10 kilometres (6 miles) to its end, where it meets the main sealed road through the park (there is limited parking at the southern end). The road was a popular carriage drive in the late 19th and early 20th centuries. It had long been closed to traffic and now forms one of the most popular walking and cycling tracks in the park. It is mostly flat and well formed (although unsealed) and being a former road averages 4 to 5 metres (12 to 18 feet) in width. It passes through valley floor vegetation and in spring is lit up by brilliant yellow displays of wattle trees and oranges and reds of the Australian native Banksia trees and Waratah flowers. Many secondary schools in the Sutherland Shire area use Lady Carrington Drive for an annual sports or fundraising event where their students walk from the southern end through to Audley where a large barbeque picnic is held.
Garie Beach Garie Beach is a beach located in the Royal National Park, on the outskirts of southern Sydney, in the state of New South Wales, Australia. ...
Winter at Wattamolla beach. ...
Burning Palms is a beach in the Royal National Park, south of Sydney, Australia. ...
Naturists find going without clothing both enjoyable and relaxing. ...
Sutherland Shire is a Local Government Area in southern Sydney, Australia. ...
Naturism The Royal National Parks offers several naturist beaches for experiencing harmony between nature and the human body. Listed places are Bredene nude beach in Belgium. ...
- Little Jibbon Beach
- Jibbon Beach
- Ocean Beach
- Marley Beach
- Curracurrang
- Werrong Beach
See also The Protected Areas of New South Wales comprise 549 separate protected areas with a total land area of 49,533 km² (6. ...
External link |
Feeds |
Contact