About Kalang Falls
Kalang Falls was our waterfalling excuse to go all the way to the Kanangra Walls deep into the southwest side of the famed Blue Mountains. According to our pre-trip research, we were expecting to see an impressive waterfall at the bottom of a hanging valley carved out by the Kanangra Creek. However, as you can see from the photo at the top of this page, it was merely trickling during our November 2006 visit despite a few consecutive days of rain. Thus, I can’t really say if this was a very seasonal waterfall with a small drainage or if the big drought that affected Australia at the time affected the area to the point that even the recent rains couldn’t revive this waterfall.
From the Kanangra Walls Lookout area and car park (see directions below), we took a descending track down several steps with a few small sections of friction pitches. A sign here indicated that it was a walk of about 60 minutes return, and it might have taken us a little bit less time than that (probably because we didn’t linger here too long given the trickling state of the falls). That said, the trail was interesting in that it really did feel like we were hiking with a sense of vertigo as cliffs and dropoffs were always present. Perhaps that was why the sign indicated that it was a “rough track” even though Julie and I didn’t have much difficulty with this track at all.
Apparently, there was a lot more to this waterfall that what we were able to see from the official track. We saw from the literature that some people come here to abseil (rappel) into parts not accessible by trail. Julie and I came out here looking for the Kanangra Falls (thinking the Kalang Falls was a bonus waterfall), but we were never really able to find it. So, I’d imagine that perhaps the abseilers would be able to reach that waterfall given how I was only able to find photos of it from abseilers as opposed to hikers.
Even though it might have seemed like a wasted effort to come all the way out this way from Sydney to see a waterfall that wasn’t flowing too well, the trip did yield nice panoramas of the Kanangra Walls as well as a bonus side trip to the Jenolan Caves (including some natural arches) along drive up here.
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