20120927 Wallancarry, Tenterfield to Bald Rock National Park

20120927 We drove onto through Stanthorpe and onto Wallancarry where we stopped for directions to the Bald Rocks and checked out the town before heading over the NSW boarder to Tenterfield.

Not a very impressive town on the New South Wales-Queensland border that would probably never have come into existence if the two states had behaved like reasonable governments.  However, the decision by the two governments to build railways of different gauges (1067mm for QLD & 1432 for NSW) ensured that this tiny settlement became a major railway junction. 

From the completion of the railway in 1887 until common sense prevailed in 1930 every passenger travelling north or south had to dismount at Wallangarra and board another train.  The town’s most distinctive feature and the only real attraction is the grand Victorian railway station

Historic Hotel Established 1922


On the window of the other hotel in town was this sign, It's not hard to imagine what this town thinks of the boat people.
Driving over the NSW boarder heading to Tenterfield, check out the town and park up for the night.  We walked the town, checked out a 2nd hand shop the went in search of the show grounds $17.00 for the night, that will do us.
 
Driving into Tenterfield
The town of Tenterfield much the same as all the other towns we have been through.

As of April 2008 the Hotel has been closed for 8 years.  Anyone won't to live in Tenterfield?
 
28-09-2012  We were up early and headed for the Bald Rocks National Park which according to Bruce Jeffery's is a must to see.

Bald Rock is the main feature of the National Park the dome is 750 metres long by 500 metres wide; it rises 200 metres above the surrounding bush lands and is the largest exposed granite rock in Australia.
 
Rock Lillie
 These waxy epiphytes feed from leaf litter and other vegetative debris falling from the surrounding vegetation as well as from minerals exuding out of the surface of the host rock (serves as a host for other rocks).

The balancing rocks called Metamorphic Rocks arise from the transformation of existing rock types, in a process called metamorphism, meaning “change in form”.  The study of metamorphic rocks provides information about the temperature and pressures that occur at the great depths within the Earth’s crust.
 

 
 
 Millions of years of rains washed over the granite to display the many different colors.
After a lengthy walk up the rock we finally made it to the summit, Ye Ha.
 
 
 
 Balancing rock formation along the way.
Walked down this very steep rock what a creepy, slow walk down it, we were sure glad when we made to the bottom, the photos from the bottom looking up.
World War II Tank Traps
 Fact or Fiction:Erected during the war Posts standing upright to stop tanks from getting through. 
This is the area of the Brisbane line which was to be the 2nd line of defence if the northern part of Australia fell into enemy hands.  During the war up to 10,000 troops were camped in the Tenterfield district.

Location: Bald Rock National Park, Boonoo Boonoo NSW 2372, Australia

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