Ku-ring-gai Chase National Park — Attraction in Sydney

Well worth a look, especially on a clear/sunny day. Maybe check out the New South Wales national parks web site for disability access if required though. There are some toilets at certain intervals throughout the park. Watch out for cyclists sharing the (main) road/s & seasoned bush walkers. We walked from the last proper car park to the West Head lookout, which is magnificent! Also, watch out for Brush Turkey's who may steal your food if you are camping or eating from a picnic here! Most of the walking tracks along the main road are hard to see where to enter from, even with sign posts, & not very safe when you are driving along trying to find 'a decent car park' at the earlier stages of this road; there aren't any! We drove all along the main road & ended up at a car park close to the end of the road pathways & walked a fairly short distance on the constructed pathways through the amazing bush land from there to the main lookout, stopping along the way to look at the Aboriginal site of the Red Hand Rock amongst other things. Lastly, I can kind of understand the reason behind the entry fee (park upkeep/maintenance costs), but does it have to be quite so high!? Why not jut a couple of Australian dollars instead of the greedy $12 we paid on our holiday in...

Good trekking place.. i did one part of this, which is an easy one.. there are couple of places which are slightly elevated otherwise it is mostly flat. Fauna is good. There is a path which goes near the river. Its beautiful. Try going there by 11 am atleast. Pack a small lunch. Walk is for around 4 hours, 9 kms. However there is a longer path you can take. Also you can do a loop, which is 17 kms. Can spot couple of birds and small waterfalls. You would see lot more people on the way on weekends. Things to carry: water, lunch/snack, windshield(depending on weather),sunglasses, cap/hat. Make sure you keep your self hydrated.

Train station is nearby. And parking available near train station. You can take a train to reach your start point after the hike. There are couple of shops, super markets and coffee places near the starting point. There were couple of people fishing at one spot in the trek. There were people saying there might be snakes, but personally i did not see one. And no animals were there. But be careful of snakes and see where you are holding or stepping on. Overall good place for bush walking/...

Our Family from 1947 to 1954 would spend our 6 week Xmas break camping at The Basin. It was a wonderful place to be as a child. Our family formed many long term friendships their, with families who came year after year. At Xmas, the community, would roast a pig and fish etc near the jetty with lots of Tooths Old and shandy for the wives. I remember our tent being flooded on several occasions when we had prolonged rain.

I also remember my father and others would go out fishing and sometimes they would catch Hairtail (like a vicious big eel) which were quite tasty. We also used to use a putt putt boat to go round Broken Head to collect bags of magnificent rock oysters. Some of those journeys were almost disasters with the seas springing up unexpectedly.

You can imagine the camping equipment at that time was very rudimentary and heavy so the ferry was often rather overloaded as this was the only way to get there. In the basin part itself, was a large netted swimming area with a platform and springboard to show off to the girls.

All in all a rare treat to grow up in. And it seems that has continued for...