Sublime Point

So today my friend Weekse and I went and did the Sublime Point walk at the Illawarra Escarpment west of Austinmer. This was our second time doing the walk together (my third). Our first time doing the walk took a rather dramatic turn as it began to pour with rain as we reached the bottom (it's all downhill and then straight back up) and so we found ourselves walking up was was basically becoming a waterfall while be swarmed by hundreds of leeches constantly. However today with nice weather there were no leeches.

Your first view is a beautiful lookout over the Illawarra.

However the first time we did this walk that lookout was like looking into oblivion. Just thick white fog, we couldn't even see a few feet in front of us.

The walk is a steep one, very shortly beginning a decent down ladders and then becoming stairs the whole way down. While seeming a relatively easy walk down, the walk back up begins to burn in the legs instantly, and so while not a long walk time or distant-wise it is one I'd recommend a decent fitness level for.

Continuing down you will come to a junction in which you can continue straight on down to a road (where Myself and Weekse had previously taken a reprieve to try and pulls hundreds of leeches off of us before trudging up the waterfall like stairs whilst being once again attacked by swarms), not too far from there, ending the Sublime Point walk. At which point you can turn around and walk directly up the god-forsaken steps of death, or take the alternate path out seeing where it goes as we decided to do before heading back up.

This walk is relatively flat, but after walking for a while takes you to another junction. However one of these paths was closed of so we continued on straight before coming to a big empty field. There appeared to be two separate paths here, neither saying how long they went on for, or how long they would take. So instead of blinding following paths to god knows where we headed back and proceeded to climb back up to the top.

It was towards the top on our way back we saw the most interesting things of the walk. A Lyrebird, and something even more fitting of the terrible place that is the Illawarra; a garbage bin in a tree.

So while not the most outstanding walk, if you're looking for something not relatively long, but something to still get the heart racing and maybe get your fitness up, this would be the walk. Though there are still more walks up the top where the Sublime Point Lookout is, I will do them one day and post them up. Who knows I might even be lucky enough to see the fabled 'Black Panther'. Although I highly doubt it.

More information on Illawarra Black Panther:
http://www.illawarramercury.com.au/story/2837299/illawarra-panther-leaves-sisters-terror-stricken/
http://www.illawarramercury.com.au/story/2135590/is-there-a-big-black-cat-on-the-illawarra-escarpment/
http://www.illawarramercury.com.au/story/2867419/illawarra-panther-picture-provokes-photo-frenzy-photos/
http://www.illawarramercury.com.au/story/2847069/does-a-panther-prowl-the-illawarra-escarpment/
http://www.illawarramercury.com.au/story/2665414/big-black-cat-spotted-on-austinmer-bush-track/photos/


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