Melville Caves Southern Circuit walk
see also:
- https://www.youtube.com/shorts/Y8X7q-qazYI my short video on Youtube panoramic view from near McLeods lookout on the Southern walk
Introduction
- southern circuit track / erroneously marked Long Rock walking track (“Long Rock” is on the eastern circuit, “large rock” is on this circuit)
- this is the BEST walk to do at Melville Caves - especially on a sunny winter's day in August - I highly recommend it for the views and the range of boulders, bleached fallen trees and yellow wattle - do it CLOCKWISE for best views
- starts and finishes at the picnic ground or at the camp ground
- 5.6km ~2.5hrs, 145m ascent and 145m descent (if walking clockwise from camp ground, most of the ascent is from picnic ground back up to the camp ground, so you could avoid this with a car shuffle)
- if starting at the picnic ground, head towards sign saying McLeods Lookout, you will pass a nice unnamed large boulder to the right which gives views plus the 150m path to the Southern Lookout, you then continue up to the junction where the camp ground track joins, then continue to McLeods Lookout, then down near the half-way point it passes “large rock” then “rock pool” which is a small depression in the large rock filled with water and from there is a rather gentle flat walk through valley until you get to the picnic ground
- Telstra mobile internet is available for most of this circuit if not all of it if there is no one else around to use up the bandwidth (4G as of 2024)
- see also:
iPhone snapshots going clockwise around the circuit late winter
Mcleod's Lookout
Rock pool on the large rock at southern tip of the walk
Large tree branch fall forming a tripod
Lovely example of crystalline erosion in the late afternoon sun
An unnamed lookout between the picnic ground and the Southern Lookout
On the 150m short side walk up to the Southern Lookout
the Southern Lookout
the Southern Lookout looking south-east