see also:

• Melville Caves campground, Kooyoora State Park
• Melville Caves Eastern Circuit walk
• Melville Caves Crystal Mine area
• Melville Caves Barry's Rock area
• https://www.youtube.com/shorts/Y8X7q-qazYI my short video on Youtube panoramic view from near McLeods lookout on the Southern walk

• 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:
    • https://goinferalonedayatatime.blogspot.com/2016/11/kooyoora-state-park-november-2016.html

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