[aesop_content color=”#000000″ background=”#ffffff” columns=”1″ position=”none” imgrepeat=”no-repeat” floaterposition=”left” floaterdirection=”up”]Starting with a walk through the streets of urban Somersby, this walk soon leaves the farms and heads into Palm Grove Nature Reserve. Following the signposted track, it heads down the open dry ridge and into the dense rainforest. Visitors can explore the moist rainforest, home to towering eucalypts, strangler fig trees, cabbage palms (Livistona australis) and a tangle of vines. The walk leads up the rocky track to another dry ridge to follow a side-trip to a flat clearing and designated campsite. From here, the track winds down through another moist forest and past more cabbage palms before coming to the Ourimbah Valley Trackhead on Ourimbah Creek Road.
Download the map and tracknotes for this section of GNW at Somersby to Ourimbah Valley Trackhead section.
Mossy and cool environement on the north side of Palm Grove NR
The track on the north side of the ridge in Palm Grove NR
Walkers Registration tube in the Palm Grove NR
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