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DWS at Dunn's Swamp 2-Feb-2011 At 1:59:31 PM SteveH

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Camping at Dunn's Swamp is lovely - with tidy long drop toilets, but no running water.

Plenty of potential on boulders on farmland on the way into the NP, but in the park the rock type appears to crap out.

The picture you have is down near the dam wall and only about waist-shoulder deep.

You can hire canoes on site, but we took our own. Lashing them together was great for getting in and out, and only one person needed to steer to canoes.

The main wall we climbed had approx 12 routes (17-22) and 8-9m high. It is about 10min paddle towards the dam and on the left side of a 45degree right hand corner (straight ahead as you paddle towards it.) It is deep water here, we couldn't touch the bottom and some fish-botherers told us it was 9m deep.

We climbed on half a dozen other walls - but none really giving us more than 3 or 4 routes, nor is the rock as solid or water deep. There is a fun 3m roof of a friendly grade on the right hand side on your paddle towards the dam (one of the first rocks on the right hand side). I will leave everything else to your own level of adventure/safety - but strongly recommend checking the depth on absolutely everything you jump on. There are trees, boulders and shallows all over the place. We held onto a 2m rope attached to a life jacket and dove down foot first (hands above head) to give us a depth check to 4.5m (which we deemed safe for most of our stuff)

Take your sense of humour and adventure and its an amazing playground, and I enjoyed it much more than all my trips to hawkesbury DWS crags, but not Thailand!