Sth Branch Kennedy Ck - Meunga Ck
Explore South Branch Kennedy Creek to Meunga Creek on this 1983 two-day hike in the Kirrama Range. Follow creeks, ridges, and rainforest with waterfalls, melaleucas, and challenging wait-a-while. A rugged North Queensland bushwalk offering wild scenery and adventurous creek crossings.
STH BRANCH KENNEDY Ck - MEUNGA Ck
Map: Kirrama 1:100,000
Time required - 2 days
5th & 6th March
1983
The car can be conveniently left at the small quarry marked and roads followed around to a banana plantation on Kennedy Ck. The creek is then readily followed to its upper reaches and the short crossing over the ridge to Meunga Ck can be made. There is some wait-a-while but this only lasts for a couple of hundred meters. Meunga Ck at this point is a placid little brook and meanders its way over a pebbly course to the waterfalls further downstream. Near the first of the waterfalls are large melaleucas overhanging the creek. Unfortunately, on this trip I was unable to continue down the creek due to heavy rains and I had to escape back to the car via the ridges. At 9hrs for 5kms this can not be recommended. It consists of continuous thick wait-a-while with some gympie. The only relief was provided by a section of casuarina forest at 776784. The most interesting section of Meunga Ck is probably below my escape point. Note: Sullivan's foot track disappears around 782813 into extremely thick wait-a-while.
Keith Thomas
