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| Bush walking in Bungonia
State Recreation Area |
Bungonia (including Bungonia State Recreation Area)
The largest State Recreation Area in New South Wales.
Located 186 km south west of Sydney via the Hume Highway and
580 metres above sea level, Bungonia is not so much a town
as a delightful State Recreation Area which is located
between Moss Vale and Goulburn on the escarpment above the
Shoalhaven River.
The area features a number of particularly spectacular
viewing points (some of which are accessible by wheelchair)
in a particularly delightful and accessible section of
bushland. The Recreation Area covers 3893 hectares of the
Southern Tablelands and is characterised by dry sclerophyll
forests, deep limestone gorges and, for the experienced
speleologist, it has the deepest caves on the Australian
mainland. Recent research has discovered over 300 types of
flora in the park and over 70 varieties of birdlife.
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| Christ Church Anglican
Church (1893) |
The actual township of Bungonia is now little more than a
few old buildings spread across a considerable area. There
is a sense that the town was once much larger than it is
today. It was an important stopover point in the 1820s but
was by-passed by the Sydney-Goulburn road as early as 1833.
The most significant building in the village is St Michael's
Roman Catholic church - the oldest Roman Catholic church in
Australia - which was started in 1839 and officially opened
by Bishop Polding in 1847. Christ Church Anglican Church
(1893), a much more attractive building, stands on the
opposite hill.
Things to see:
The Lookdown
This is the best known viewing area in the park and offers
quite extraordinary, and very rugged, views of the
Shoalhaven River and Bungonia Creek. The view down into the
Bungonia Creek (known as Bungonia Gorge or Bungonia Canyon),
a drop of nearly 300 metres in a gorge which is 800 metres
long and only 76 metres wide, is the deepest gorge in
Australia.
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| The view from Adams
Lookout, Bungonia National Park |
It is spectacular and the view across to the awful
limestone quarry is a reminder of how the mining industry
can define some of the country's natural wonders.
Bungonia Creek
Only ten minutes walk from the main camping area is Bungonia
Creek. It is ideal to swim in during summer and is notable
for large pools and attractive small waterfalls.
Bungonia State Recreation Area
For details concerning walking tracks, the weather in the
park and general information contact the New South Wales
National Parks and Wildlife Service, Lookdown Road, Bungonia
on (02) 4848 4277. Fax (02) 4848 4331. Entrance to the park
costs $6 per vehicle and there is a range of long term
National Park ticket options available for people wanting to
visit the parks on a regular or semi-regular basis.
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