Headland Walks - Diamond Head, NSW, Australia - Hiking and walking trailheads on Waymarking.com

The sign at these coordinates lists three walks, made up from two Tracks, that join, to create a Loop. They are:

* Headland Walk Track: 2.9 km (approx 1.5 hrs) to Indian Head Campground
* Forest Walk Track: 1.5 km (approx 45 mins) to Indian Head Campground
* Diamond Head Loop: 4.3 km (allow at least 2 hrs), combine the Headland and Forest Walk Tracks to create a loop track.

With 'no legend to speak of', this Photomap (aerial view of the headland), has a black line for the dirt roads, and white dotted line, for the Walking Tracks that are mentioned. It shows that you are just little south of the Diamond Head Campground, and National Park office just down the hill, but not marked on the map. There is a scale measuring line on the bottom of the map, but that is the extent of symbols.

Just up the hill, on the first couple of steps towards Diamond Head trig, is another sign, that has comments made by author, Kylie Tennant, who had lived in Kylie's Hut, while writing this area.

Take the walk - "… to the ridge-top where the spray gives way to flannel flowers and golden everlastings, pale violets, thick wrinkled banksias holding out honeycombs for the gillbirds. All the froth of flowers splashes over the great dragon-spine slanting inland, rearing up above the sea its crown of glittering quartz." - and experience for yourself the descriptive passage from "The Man on the Headland", a novel by Kylie Tennant, inspired by and written about Diamond Head.

"When Cook sailed past it was a grey May day as cold as the captain's eye. There would be a steely light on the sea, the sails stretched by the following southerly wind. Coming round Crowdy Head they would have kept well out to avoid the fall of foam on the Mermaid Reef. So that Cook must have been looking through the spyglass to see the black stick figures of aborigines on our headland and log it as Indian Head." Kylie Tennant 1912 - 1988. Order of Australia, S.H. Prior Memorial Prize 1935, 1940. Australian Literature Society's Gold Medal.

"Although named by Cook in 1770, the headland is now known as Diamond Head, due to the quartz that shines from the rock outcrops."

Visited: 0947, Sunday, 28 May, 2017
[I have walked these trails several times over the decades and recent years.]

Parking: N 31° 43.110 W 152° 47.690 Trail allowances or restrictions: Hiking allowed * No Horses or animals * Trail type: Compacted dirt Trailhead/trail website: Not listed

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