Trip to London Bridge

Today was a public holiday in Canberra so we decided to head out to London Bridge a limestone karst which consists of a wonderful arch hollowed out by the Burra Creek. It's in the Burra Creek nature reserve and not that far from Googong.

I'd seen pictures of it for years, but we'd never visited. It wasn't a very long drive from home and despite its close proximity to Canberra and the fact that it was a public holiday there was nobody around. The arch is a short 10 minute walk from the car park.

We'd taken our swim things (I'd hoped the water under the arch was going to be higher). Actually it was only really good for paddling but I suspect it gets higher in winter. There's some great looking caves surrounding the arch including one which had a rock formation shaped like a lizards head.

Things I had read before going suggested not entering the caves as they had been/were aboriginal sacred sites, so we respected that. There was plenty to see without disturbing things.

When we had arrived a couple of large lizards had scurried away and when we left a flock of black cockatoos flew overhead. It's good living in the bush capital.

the path from the car park