Look out! (Lots of them!)

My Thursday bushwalking group had a nice little outing last week in the lower Blue Mountains.  We explored a series of lookouts, caves, and interesting little features on both sides of Glenbrook Creek, in the Valley Heights area.

Our walk started and finished at Martins Lookout, near Batman Park. We had morning tea on the other side of the valley, on Sharks Head, just above Sharks Head Cave, and looking out over the Creek.

A bit of interesting scrambly bits then, up narrow slots and emerging through holes like the one below. It was great fun.

One of the sights to be seen was up on the Lost World plateau: the memorial to the Reverend Brother Graham Eric Raymer, who drowned in the sea at Wollongong in 1953, while trying to save the lives of two of his pupils who'd got into trouble in the surf. I understand he used to bring them on bushwalking trips in the Blue Mountains too. So the Lost World and Bunyan Lookout must have been some of his favourite places.

Another interesting destination with a religious connection was Psalm Rock. This was also previously unknown to me, maybe because you have to bush-bash along the riverbank several hundred metres, with no clues or signposting, to find it.

It's a bit hard to see from the photo, but the whole of Psalm 23 ('The Lord is my Shepherd.....') is carved meticulously into it. Nobody knows who did it or when or why.