Poonyahra Falls incorporating Twin Falls or Warrie Circuit.

Area: Springbrook NP
Part of Warrie Circuit.
13 km

Leader: Warwick

Difficulty: moderate Medium Grade 3
Start Time: 9.00 am
Cost: $2

Car Pooling Nerang Fair 7.45 am, leave 8.00 am. Give driver $5. Please leave name in comments.

Please read the Conditions of Group Membership and event participation at the end of the walk description.

This trip we will visiting Poondahra and Poonyahra Falls. We may even go back to Rainbow falls and take in Goomoolahra Falls. Or maybe vice versa.

The Warrie Circuit, for those who like a longer walk, will be done anti-clockwise.

The Circuit includes several waterfalls,

The Warrie Circuit and Twin Falls Circuit are teeming with life. Walkers may be lucky enough to see a blue Lamington spiny cray, or hear lyrebirds in the cooler months, or be startled by jet-black land mullets (the largest skink in the world) sunning themselves beside the track.

The track at the base of the escarpment winds through virgin forest left unlogged by the pioneers of the 19th Century. Walkers may notice a horseshoe-shaped cliff just south of Blackfellow Falls arcing around a stand of brushbox trees, all about the same age. These germinated in the 1890s after several hundred metres of the cliff face collapsed, leaving a scar that could be seen in the early days from Main Beach.

Medical emergency: Please carry some first aid with you on every walk. As a minimum it should be a good 100m strong crape bandage. In chemists from $10-12), elastoplasts, medical tape, plus anything you consider an essential. Accidents can a DO happen on our walks, don’t think it won’t be me and don’t expect others to be carrying your emergency supplies if you do have a mishap. A strong bandage to support a badly twisted/sprained ankle will get you home safely or a broken one back in less pain and agony. Remember we are responsible for our own self and that includes emergency procedures.

Conditions of Group Membership and event participation

1 GCMWWG is not an incorporated association or organisation and is composed of individuals who join with each other in an informal manner to engage in the pleasurable activity of bushwalking and accordingly each individual member is required to take personal responsibility for his or her own safety and to comply with the recommendations published on the Group’s meet up website and with directions given from time to time by any walk leader of a Bushwalk undertaken by the Group.
2 Participants are recommended:
(i) to wear walking boots which provide ankle support;
(ii) carry his or her own rucksack which will contain at least 1 litre of fresh water in watertight containers and personal first aid items including band-aids (or similar), bandages, antiseptic, insect repellents and sunscreen and foodstuffs appropriate to the length and timing of the bushwalk;
(iii) to make a realistic assessment prior to participating in a bushwalk as to whether the participants’ physical condition will allow the participant to enjoyably and safely engage in the bushwalking activity without endangering the safety and enjoyment of other participants;
(iv) to wear or carry clothing suitable for each walk including clothing (such as a waterproof jacket or poncho) that is appropriate for unexpected changes in the weather.
3 Each bushwalk undertaken by the Group shall have a nominated leader who will walk at the front of the Group (“walk leader”) and a nominated person who will walk at the rear of the group (“back marker”). The walk leader will set the pace of the walk and will halt the walk at appropriate times in his or her discretion for rests and drink breaks and meal breaks. The back marker will endeavour to keep the group together at all times and to notify the walk leader if any untoward accident or injury is sustained by any participant. The walk leader and the back marker for each bushwalk will be nominated by the Group Leader.
4 Each participant will be required to observe any directions or instructions given by the walk leader including any instruction to shorten the walk, change the route of the walk or abandon the walk due to any unexpected change of circumstances such as track closure or obstruction, inclement weather and/or injury or illness suffered by any member.
5 Any one of the Group Leader, walk leader or back marker for each bushwalk undertaken by the group shall carry with him or her a mobile phone and a first aid kit.
6 There shall be published in each event's description a degree of difficulty by the Group a statement as to the degree of difficulty of the proposed bushwalk so that members may realistically assess whether they (or their guests) have the requisite degree of physical fitness required to pleasurably and safely undertake the proposed bushwalk.
7 Details of each proposed bushwalk including the walk route, the commencement time and the anticipated time required to complete the walk will be published on the Group’s meet up website.