Harcourt Hill

Summary

Harcourt Hill is a suburban reserve on the Western side  of the suburb of Nicholls.   What makes this reserve special is that it is almost impossible to get into as it is surrounded by barbed wire fences and locked gates.  However, there appears to be a single stile over the barbed wire fence that will give you access.

Once inside, there area is sub-divided by more barbed wire into separate paddocks that seem to harbour a large number of kangaroos.  Your next challenge is to work out how to get into the various paddocks to take pictures.   Some of the paddocks have a gate that grants you access to the next one over, but these gates are in the corners, so you have to trek over a kilometer usually to reach a corner and see if there is a gate there.  Sometimes you're lucky and sometimes not.   On the top of one ridge line there is an area fenced off that seems to have no entrance.

At the top of the hill is a trig station and a large water tank.

The landscape is classic Canberra grassland and woodland.   There are plenty of dramatic dead trees available to photograph on the way to the top.  The hill itself doesn't have much height, so this limits the view from the top somewhat.

There are no toilets here.

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