directions from windsor to Oldtrees

Go to Windsor.

Take the Singleton/Putty Road to Wilberforce (Butterfly Farm on the right)).
Go through Wilberforce and continue on the Singleton Road to Colo.
Colo is a small village with a big new concrete bridge over the Colo River.

Don’t go over the bridge!

Just before the bridge, there is a left fork off to “Upper and Lower Colo.”

Take the fork off and 50 metres to the river trun left at the T following the sign to Upper Colo. Take the Upper Colo Road.

Go past the horse farm, – then over a single track bridge – beware the oncoming 4WD hoons. Along over/past another bridge, note the bellbirds calling along this section.

Then, past a kids’ camp called Somerset, then take the gravel road.

Two more single track bridges. Mind the potholes as you come off the wooden bridges.

The gravel ends at another bridge and a big Poplar break appears. Go past this – a place called “The Ark” an orange grove, then on the left hand side appears a sign to “Colo Heights.”

Take right hand fork in road at sign – Colo Heights
This goes down another gravel road over the river.

Continue down till you reach the wooden bridge – cross over

See picnic area / car park on the right by the river
Drive up past the picnic area and go through first gate on right (with a cattle ramp on the left of the gate)

This first gate on right has a private property sign on it– that’s the main gate, the road isn’t, private that is.

Follow the track – keep to the river

Continue through the gates by the riverbank.

GATE RULE: IF ITS OPEN KEEP IT OPEN, IF ITS CLOSED CLOSE IT ONCE YOU GONE THROUGH IT

That is some six gates, open and closed.

Still keeping to the bank take ill defined track to the end where are some derelict cars. You have arrived at the entrance to our land

Continue straight ahead and camp wherever you want.

Take plenty of insect repellent and first aid kit.
Beware of biting insects, snakes and rampaging wombats.

DIrections Part 1

Ok. Go to Windsor via the Harbour bridge, Epping rd or Lane Cove tunnel then right to the end of the M2. Follow signs to Windsor along Windsor Rd. Drive straight through Windsor. Follow signs to Wilberforce along Wilberforce Rd. This turns into Putty Rd. Follow Putty rd for about 25 min or untill you come down a very curvy steep incline. (This is leading to the Colo river.) At the bottom of this long and windy rd you turn left. Note turn left BEFORE you go over the bridge. If you go over the bridge take a U turn.....
Turn left onto the Upper Colo Rd.(Away from the bridge) Drive along this rd for a while (be carefull lots of blind corners.) untill you get to a hidden right turn, it is lower than the road you are on and leads you to a low cement flood proof bridge. The road is called Colo Heights Rd. On the opposite side of the bridge is a carpark. Follow the road over the bridge and around the top of the car park. At the top of the carpark as the road does a sharp turn to the left there is a gate with a cattle ramp opposite. This is the 1st of many gates that lead down towards Oldtrees which is the final property along this road.
There are still more directions and ill add them shortly...


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The Invite

google map to colo

This is a quick 'this is where colo is' google map. Ill mark and write some directions and make promises about signage once you cross the river and start driving through peoples properties. The plus side is its only 1.5 hours from sydney.
There are snakes though. and cows, oh and wombats. Also might be good to get an idea of who is actually coming and what they are planning to contribute. Ive got the pasta machine and the property so i think im even. Yes there are no showers and no electricity and no fresh water and no mobile phone reception.


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Easter 08

wow blogs. i remember them.
for those who dont have a facebook account (there is a thats campin group) there are 'live' updates and discussions about thats campin that pretty much go like this 'we should go here', 'no thats too far,' 'then we should go here', then there'll be 6 months of silence untill a last minute flurry of activity creates a descision with usually the key people who initiaite the conversation saying they cant come now. so now you know what facebook is like you can make your choice. Enter your details into cia linked databases or live your life free of facebook spam.
So a that's campin first, its on Easter this year, and a thats campin second, it's on the colo river.
A few other firsts weve got nightime movies planned and a sunday feast. also featuring my birthday. So comments and discusions please.
Ill get a google map up shortly and clear proper directions on how to get there ASAP.
see you all on the world wide web.
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