Bobbin Head is a “near-urban” part of Ku-ring-gai Chase National Park, reached via Bobbin Head Road through North Turramurra or Kuringai Chase Road, Mount Colah near Hornsby. It has a picnic area, information centre and boat ramp; a number of bushwalks start here or traverse Bobbin Head.
An Aborginal engraving of what appears to be a man and club in a small shelter near thr Mt Ku-ring-gai Track.
Towards the end of Spring Gully Creek (just before it flows into Cockle Creek) are a few small cascades. Most are only a few feet high, but being surrounded by moss-covered rocks and semi-rainforest, they are very photogenic. Getting to Spring Gully Creek cascades The Spring Gully Creek cascades are Read more…
Frasers Brook Cascades is a very small waterfall along the Cliff Connection Track, where the creek drops into a natural pool.
Accessed via the Jacomb Trail (firetrail) with a short off-track section through the bush, the Jacomb Trig Station is mostly depiled.
Not far off the Bobbin Head Trail is the Bobbin Trig Station. It’s partly demolished, although much of the stone cairn remains.
Aboriginal cave paintings of a large anthropormophic figure and other motifs in a large shelter, near Cliff Oval.
Aboriginal Shelter with Art (SWA) near Smiths Creek, which has multiple figures drawn in charcoal
Hand stencils, a fishtail stencil and charcoal drawings in a smoke-damaged cave on Cowan Creek
Apple Tree Bay Shelter near Bobbin Head has stencils of two fish and 12 hands one panel, and charcoal drawings on another panel
Boomerang Cave (Apple Tree Bay) has white stencils of four hands, a boomerang and a hafted axe