Adventure Time: Mountain Lagoon (and a little bit of Mount Banks)

Near Bilpin NSW

Distance: We only did 1.5km but there's opportunity for much more

Duration: ~1 hour

Today's Sunday adventure took us for a long drive up through Kurrajong to a reedy nondescript swamp called Mountain Lagoon. Off to the right of this was a winding road leading to the start of the T3 track. With the kids in tow we only attempted a small part of the tough T3 track which is up behind Mountain Lagoon, north of Bilpin.

Apart from 2 spews on the way back home (Holly) this was a great day out. The little bit of track we explored was varied enough to keep the kids occupied, Ty with his parkour obsession and Holly tagging along behind him. You get to climb through, around up and over some big rock formations, and we spent an hour mucking around here only getting 1.5km of walking in but plenty of fun and photos.

The waratahs were out in flower which was a lovely surprise; neither of us remember having seen them growing wild before. There was a bunch of them just off the fire road which formed the first part of the T3 track.

After a snack break, we took Bell's Line of Road to go the longer way home and stopped briefly at Mt Banks. The kids weren't up for another walk so we'll file this for another day, but we parked at the trailhead and hopped out to check out some of the fantastic semi-eroded rock formations and the epic views across the Grose valley towards Blackheath. Holly stayed in the car nearby as she was over it by that stage and just wanted to read instead!

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