Koombanda Canyon

This is a short canyon and not one I had thought of doing until I read someone else’s writeup. The walk-in is fairly easy – a bit of a bushbash but the undergrowth is still quite sparse because of the 2013 fires that ripped through here.  Once in the stream it is green and pretty, and there is the usual mix of scrambling on slippery rock, swims, abseils into dark holes & climb-downs.  

The canyon ends at a service road for an abandoned coal mine and one of the coal-miners’ legacies is the tastefully pebblecreted stream bed.  The walk out is up the old mine road with only one awkward spot where the road has been washed away and there is only a narrow ledge and one strategically placed piece of rebar.