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A Night With The Ghosts

The local Aboriginals call it ‘Binoomea’ – Dark Places.

It’s believed to be the world’s oldest known open caves system, with more than 40 kilometres of remarkable caverns still undergoing exploration. We know it as Jenolan Caves.

I’ve been here many times, yet the journey along the narrow road called ‘Six Foot Track’ with its hairpin turns and crumbling rock walls, seems like a descent into madness each and every time.

This sloping road, in places little wider than our car, was first designed for horse and carriage and later for automobiles that would line up for hours to wait for their turn on the one way road – traffic driving out in the morning, and new traffic driving in during the afternoon.

Increasingly there is an unearthly stillness as we approach the Grand Archway at the mouth of the caves.

It’s as if the vast Australian bush has caved in on itself and exposed an entrance to the Underworld...

Read the rest online at The Hoopla.