Walls of Jerusalem lake rowallen and some 4by action

Slept in a little this morning but still all fed and watered by 930 then a quick catch up on some hand washing in the bucket the shower has come in handy for this aspect then Shahla had a quick bath in the bucket she barely fitted into.
Chris a van builder we ran into yesterday came up for a yarn and time passed quickly talking about vans and solar yet again so we went over to inspect his van annexe compared to ours the same but his wa put up differently to our , I must ask the boys at Aussie traveller the correct way !.
The kids went for a fairly quick dip in the cold waters of lake Parangana but this was over soon enough ( can't imagine why!)
We grabbed some goodies for a packed lunch and headed to the walls of Jerusalem national park area which begins past the lake rowallen boat ramp.
This is a 3-4 hour walk in so we would have to leave this for another time although dash and I ran up a short distance the climb was very steep gaining over 600 metres in those first 3 hours .
we turned away from the fairly busy walk car park ( it was weird having 8 or so small cars in a car park in the middle of nowhere that really needed a four wheel drive to get to.)
We caught up with some farmers chasing some lost cattle along the road to the falls near the bottom of the lake and had a quick chat with them mostly over greenies old roads , logging and the area in the late 70's it was a good yarn.
We didn't get much further than the farmers as the road was blocked by a massive tree far too big to be winched away or cut p with my small chainsaw so around we turned and took a 4 wd tour down a not very recently used logging track to the low dam below exciting the mrs a few times in the process ( I think she has lost her 4x4 edge just quietly!)
Simple sangas and some cordial downed we explored the 4wd terrain just above the lakes edge and got some happy snaps and pointed towards home stopping a few times to see the campground here and watch the workers doing an upgrade of the dam wall , quite a feat here really.
A quick trip over the Mersey river and up along the bluff on the steeper side we couldn't find the long since disused Walter lookout but we did spy a very overgrown steep track to where it probably was but since it was 5 pm and our luck with 5 o'clock tracks we grabbed some firewood for the night and headed back to camp.
There was an old falls nearby ( Gadds falls) nice homemade sign but the track wasn't in a great state probably owing to recent storms but the boys and I took a walk up and thoroughly enjoyed roughing it and got nearly drowned in the process of a self portrait on self timer.
Curried snags for tea with rice and some campfire poems finished our night of just perfectly as we watched the possums play around our campsite .