Today Sandy and Maxine took my up to Yengo National Park. It a great park North of Sydney. We drove in on a little used fire lane. Good thing Sandy has a 4 wheel drive! It was quite a good drive. We lost a lot of time on the way because we got stuck in a traffic jam heading out of Sydney (big accident on the freeway). Once we got there, we took a leisurely drive through the park. Its a wild area of steep gorges. It also has a great deal of significance to the aboriginal people. Not long into the park we stopped at a great overlook of the valley. It was a fantastic view (check out the video below). The mountain you see in the distance in the video is Mt. Yango. The aboriginal Wollombi tribe believed that Mount Yengo was a stepping stone used by Wa-boo-ee, the demon-spirit. Soon after the lookout we stopped at a couple of aboriginal sites. The first one had some rock carvings (see photo above, its an image of a ghost/spirit rising). The next site was a cave that had hand painting on the walls. It was very cool to see, who knows how long this kind of history will preserved.
Further down the track we came across this Gowana. It a rather large lizard, particularly to come across in the wild. This one was about 4 foot long! They can also climb trees (see if you can spot the Gowana on the tree...)
Here's my encounter with the Gowana, this is taped just after Sandy and Maxine told me to not stand still if it gets frightened because it may think I'm a tree and its claws are sharp!
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that's a BIG lizard
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