WALK: Mt Somers - Sharplin Falls
Sharplin Falls Track is a well-formed, easy walk suitable for people of modest fitness. From the carpark the track leads to a bridge across Bowyers Stream and follows it upstream for a short distance.
The falls can be reached two ways. One route is to follow the streambed. However, at times this may not be possible because of high water levels. The other route is to take the high-level track, going through the forest to a catwalk around a bluff, and then descending to the falls.
Bowyers Stream, named after an early Staveley sawyer, drops several metres over the Mt Somers southern fault system, forming a series of cataracts. The tracks rejoin at Goldsmith Rapids, making it possible to do a round trip.
Nature Trail
Time: 30 min
The trail begins with a crossing of Woolshed Creek and climbs up the true left river bank. The track continues up the valley following the stream bed, crossing it again to the right bank, ending with a climb out through the dross (old coal dust) screened from coal at the bottom of the jig.
