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t’s very easy to overlook NSW’s Aber- forest allows good views of the surrounding
crombie River National Park, because mountains and deep valleys. Casuarina fronds
it doesn’t have the spectacular natural whistle in the breezes along the river edges.
features of the nearby Blue Mountains Near the Park boundaries there are brilliant
National Park, but Abercrombie offers views of the surrounding pastoral land.
some steep 4X4 driving and magnifi- Abercrombie River National Park offers an
cent river-side campsites. interesting insight into the original appear-
Abercrombie River National Park ance of this tableland country, before clearing
was gazetted in 1995, to preserve some of for pine plantations and grazing took place.
the last remnants of mountain woodland in On a quiet mid-week visit we saw eastern
the south-western central tablelands and to grey kangaroos and dozens of different bird
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