February 14, 2011

Yesterday some friends and I zoomed off to Tianjara Falls for a climb. The weather forecast was for isolated showers, but on the ground it was more like steadfast drizzle, which meant that although we climbed a couple of routes we spent most of the day eating cheese or exploring the beautiful surroundings of Tianjara Falls. These are nonetheless entirely good ways to spend a rainy Sunday. TJF is the most developed of surprisingly many crags along Turpentine Road between Nowra and Nerriga. It’s a really lovely spot in the Morton National Park: tall gum forest, taller sandstone cliffs, mossy ledges, the mist-filled valley below. And, there’s loads of climbing there. Great stuff.

Also, there are fossils! (If I was a geologist I would have included a pencil of unknown size for scale – but I’m not, so you’ll have to take my word that the shell was at least a metre across, probably more).