This is the third time we have camped at the Settlement Campground in Springbrook National Park. For more details on the campground and how to get there please read our previous blogs, starting here: Springbrook National Park: Part 1.
This trip we were keen to return and check out the reopened Purling Brook Falls Circuit complete with a new suspension bridge.
We arrived in the afternoon and quickly set up camp on our favourite site, number 6, so that we could do a quick recon of the falls before it got dark.
It is a pleasant 330m walk from the campground to the Purling Brook Falls Lookout. There is plenty to see even on this short walk.
All photos taken in April 2015
This trip we were keen to return and check out the reopened Purling Brook Falls Circuit complete with a new suspension bridge.
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| New suspension bridge at the base of Purling Brook Falls |
We arrived in the afternoon and quickly set up camp on our favourite site, number 6, so that we could do a quick recon of the falls before it got dark.
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| Site 6 at The Settlement Campground |
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| Camp Kitchen at Settlement Campground |
It is a pleasant 330m walk from the campground to the Purling Brook Falls Lookout. There is plenty to see even on this short walk.
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| Walk from the campground to the Purling Brook Falls Lookout |
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| The top of Purling Brook Falls from the lookout. |
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| Looking down to the new suspension bridge from the lookout. |
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| This Meadow Argus Junonia villida has had a hard life. |
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| There were a few small skinks sunning themselves on the steps at the lookout. |
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| Golden Whistlers, female (L) and male (R). |