The Hawkesbury Harvest Farm Gate Trail

Browns Siding Store & Cafe

Slow Food Blue Mountains

 

Whisk & Pin Store & Cafe

1 Railway Parade 

Medlow Bath 

02 4788 1555

www.whiskandpin.com 

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Mount Tomah Botanic Garden

Number 3 Map 1A Hawkesbury Harvest Farm Gate Trail Maps

As someone who has lived in the mountains for several years now, Mt Tomah Botanical Gardens has been one of my favourite places to visit.

 

I have regularly taken my children there for the various Treasure Hunts or Quests. Often though I have gone on my own, to enjoy the beauty of this place in a different way.

Today I went with the kids.  It is school holidays and they are very familiar now with the way the Treasure Hunts work.  As they race ahead of me, following clues and a string of terrible jokes/arrows (even the writer admits they are bad at one point!) I am able to follow at a more leisurely pace and reacquaint myself with favourite spots in the Gardens.

 

We are blessed with an outrageously perfect autumnal day. A blue sky arches overhead.  The leaves are on the turn but  I can see that the colours of autumn here, the wonderful russets and reds and golds will deepen further yet in coming weeks. The proteas are stunning and I love watching the kids stop and gently stroke foliage, enjoying the textures.

 

We loop through the Meadow and the woods, this time not walking past the secret bower bird's nest that a kind ranger showed us once.  The pencil breaks and we choose our own trail, making sure to visit the ponds filled with koi.

my favourite tree...

  ... and its shadow

A picnic is consumed and it is time to go.  

We are not sad to leave.

That's because we know we will be back.

Mount Tomah Botanic Garden

Bells Line of Road via Bilpin NSW  02 4567 2154

www.mounttomahbotanicgarden.com.au

Please visit the  Hawkesbury Harvest website