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    Gunns Plains Caves

    4.0 (2 reviews)
    Open 10:00 am - 4:30 pm

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    The Nut

    The Nut

    5.0(2 reviews)
    83.7 km

    Ah, the Nut. It's not a mountain but a volcanic plug, which means that a LONG time ago (see: 20 to…read more75 MILLION YEARS AGO) it was an active volcano--A FREAKING VOLCANO--but then the plug was created when magma hardened within a vent on the volcano. From wikipedia: "If a plug is preserved, erosion may remove the surrounding rock while the erosion-resistant plug remains, producing a distinctive upstanding landform." Which is exactly what created the Nut. The awesome part about the Nut is that you can crawl around on the top. Or just walk like a normal person. You can get to the top two ways: a) trek up the path or b) catch the chairlift to the top. The full circuit of the Nut is around 2km and takes around half an hour. I walk the suggested route, first heading to the Pinmatic Lookout. At this stage, I figure the Nut is going to be fairly similar all over, flat and windy--stunning, too, but flat and windy. The visitor passport has notes like "Look out for the wildlife! So much wildlife!" and so I keep my eyes peeled on the track around from the chairlift to the Pinmatic Lookout, anticipating my "likely encounters" with echidnas, pademelons, wallabies and shearwaters. Except there are just these shrubs. But then I get down past the Fisherman's Wharf Lookout and the scenery changes dramatically and suddenly I'm in this ridiculously beautiful spring grove and there are pademelons and wallabies all over the place eating breakfast. From my intrepid adventure guide aka visitors passport: "This is what most of the nut would have been like prior to it being used for grazing land in the 1970s." There's even a little picnic table slightly off the path and I wish I had known to bring some takeaway breakfast up here because it's crazy how magical this is. I love you, Nut. I never knew I could feel this strongly about an ancient volcanic plug, but this love is true.

    Ahh The Nut at Stanley. The product of nature's magic. I thoroughly enjoyed my trip up and back on…read morethe chair lift and the gorgeous walk along the top. It had the most incredible views and I would highly recommend it to anyone in the area.

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