22/6/22 Chillingham & Tyalgum

 

    An afternoon out took us to Chillingham and a small waterfall beside Zara Rd Chillingham . Time for some fun with the camera !!

   Sometimes i actually make it into the photo !

    There was plenty of water falling which made it so much easier to take these shots .

   There must have been a lot of water flowing down here as well .

   Tree roots have been more exposed by the floods , plenty of debris was lying around the banks - water level was about 3 to 4m above where it is now !!

   All calm above the waterfall .

    This is part of the Rous River just past Chillingham village .

    From Chillingham , we made our way to Tyalgum , finding Long Mountain Way as we went . It lead us up the side of a mountain to a phone tower , and the view was amazing over to Mt Warning and surrounding valley .

   This was looking back to the Scenic Rim - which is the rim of the old volcano , Mt Warning is the centre of that volcano .

    Speaking of which , here it is .

    Making our way down to Tyalgum , we went up through the village , finding a section of Oxley River 

 

   Tyalgum has a different Community Hall - cant say I've ever seen a 2 storey one ??

    There was also a General Store , a couple of other shops and the hotel .

   Our plan was to head straight back to Murwillumbah , but the flood made a different plan for us - the road was closed , presumably washed away . So rather than back track , we headed toward Uki - the only other road out . We'd travelled around here quite some years ago - probably about 40 years ago !! and we weren't sure if it was this road or not - turns out it was this road . The bitumen ended and we had a single lane gravel road winding it's way through the bush and also some plantation forest as well - it looked stunning in the late afternoon light , illuminating all the trunks .

   The road had been repaired in one section that had been washed away in the floods , before we got back out onto the bitumen at Uki .

   This section of Kyogle Rd hasn't been repaired yet , notice the witches hats - they're on the centre line of the road - just one of the sections of the road in the area that's one lane and has temporary traffic lights controlling the traffic 24/7 .

   An interesting drive through some great country , just another day 😎 here's a map link :- https://www.google.com/maps/d/edit?mid=1cIBaTOZQig8YaVjgKikLWMnyDXG-3DE&usp=sharing