We may take advantage of the warm weather and head out for a hike/walk tomorrow. I’m wondering if anyone here might be able to suggest something new. Ideally it would be accessible by train. Usually the furthest we can travel is south to Otford or north to the Hawkesbury. The trips out west (mountains) take too long although we’ve been meaning to check out the Western Sydney Parklands. We’d be striking out from the inner city. Feel free to suggest anything and I’ll let you know if we’ve been there.
We saw this giant dragonfly out the back of Heathcote about a couple of years ago (I think).
Any of the southern coastal walks will be very nice tomorrow, like La Perouse, Kurnell and Royal National Park and you might even see some whales - but only the Royal National Park ones would have train access, you’d need a bus or car to the others. I think it’s still a bit of a walk from Otford to the track, and then it’s another 2 hours one-way to get to Era beach or so. What about going to Watsons Bay, or heritage walk in Vaucluse, presumably you can go to Edgecliff station? Another very good one starts from Mt Kuringai Station to Berowra station on the Benowie track (enter from Glenview Road) - very peaceful as not as well known as the southern ones.
One of the last times we walked from Otford to Bundeena a pod of dolphins was swimming north as well. We noticed them not long after entering the park early in the morning at Otford and by the time we sat down for lunch on one of the beaches they were surfing the waves right in front of us. On the same walk we did see whales breaching further north and out to sea. At some point on the cliffs we stopped to look out at some waves crashing in. My partner noticed a colourful school of fish (or something) below us and before long we noticed a similar sized school about 50 meters away from the first school. Out of nowhere this enormous whale sort of pops/rolls up out of the water and turns towards the cliffs and then dove straight down.