Coba Pt

[kanangra]

Before work this morning I decided to check out this track again. It had been many years since my last visit. The road is sealed right to the gate at the start of the track. There is a NP sign to Coba Pt 9kms and also a new yellow "Neverfail Trail" sign. I am seeing more and more of these signs now. I think they are put up by the fireies? They even come complete with map co-ordinates which is kind of neat.

Anyway I set off in the pre dawn gloom in light drizzle. Before long another track branched off to the right, with its own new yellow sign "Coba South" again complete with map co-ords. After about 40mins the main track veered off to the right and continued onto Collingridge Pt. a small settlement on the shores of Berowra Creek. A little further on I caught a glimpse of the houses clustered around Neverfail Bay. (Hence the name of the track?)

Anyway I left the main trail at the junction and followed the less used trail out to Coba Pt. Before long this becomes a single trail only and is very pleasant. Obviously it once took vehicles because not too far from the end an old EK Holden Station Wagon has been reversed off the side of the track. Now that car was manufactured no later than 1963 and I remember it being there when I last went through in c1978 so the trail must have been trafficable for vehicles at least up until the mid 70's? Certainly not now. Incidentally the old Holden was pretty much rusted out but some of the chrome still looked like the day it was driven out of the showroom. (My Dad had one of those and I remember it well from when I was a kid. It was pink and grey. Hey it was the '60's.) Come to think of it it can't have been too old when it was dumped?

Anyway I continued out to the end where there are good views out over Berowra Ck to Bar Is. (Now that is an interesting place which if you haven't visited I strongly recommend.) There is a sign near the end saying "Private Prperty no vehicles but there is no fence or gate.

After a short rest I returned the same way and was back in just over an hour.

This is a very pleasant little walk with a good viewpoint at the end. Most of the route is through dry scrubby country but there is the occasional patch of taller forest and one area of highland swamp.

K.

[Rob Gosford]

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hmmmmm Coba Point.......that's where mammalogist/palaeontologist Prof. Tim Flannery - Federal Climate Change Commissioner - lives. Hope you bopped him on the head mate lol. He has a house there.....right on the water. I bet it worries him no end, about rising sea levels

[puredingo]

If you want Tim Flannery bopped on the head you need to arrange him and Chris Flannery for a meeting...

[kanangra]

Never knew that. Also I checked my old log books last night and it seems I didn't get out to Coba Pt in 1979 I visited Coba Ck instead. So it must have been on a later trip that I saw the wreck. I'll have to try and find out when that was.

K.

[Rob Gosford]

Never knew that.
K.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tim_Flannery
under Background, 5th paragraph.......

i would say our B.S.ing Tim has a V12 jetboat moored at his wharf ready for 2 reasons. Either to quickly "exit stage right" from baseball weilding taxpayers OR catastrophic rising sea-levels

can you mountain(push)bike that trail K ?

cheers

[kanangra]

You can no problems at all to the turn off. After that you would need to be more careful as it narrows down quite a bit and is single trail only. There is a couple of steepish rocky spots where I suspect you might have to walk it but you probably could get a MTB out there. I saw fresh tyre tracks most of the way. These days i think MTB's can negotiate most tracks?

K.

[michael_p]

can you mountain(push)bike that trail?

Have a look at http://nobmob.com/ and here is a video from trailflix:


So I'd say yes you can.

[kanangra]

There you go. Amazing what you can find on the net. I could have saved myself some time and just watched the video!

K.

[Rob Gosford]

thanks guys for the heads up.
might put this on my bucket list