Royal National Park

What he did remember was a phone call from Lamar Condon, who told him he had something to show him but wouldn't tell him what it was.

The friend said he was picked up after work and they drove towards the Royal National Park, a place they'd visited together before.

He told the court they stopped at what he described as a kind of rest stop.

Bo opened the boot and took out several items, including a police-issued vest, a police radio and a brown paper bag.

Gibbsy, just before the break, we were going through the prosecution's questioning of a friend of Bolimar Condon whose identity has been suppressed by the court.

Let's start to break down some of the cross-examination.

What did the defence say about the visit to the Royal National Park in which Bolimar Condon allegedly fired his gun and asked if it could be heard inside a house?

John Stratton SC questioned whether the bag had been used to protect Bo's hand from smoke and particles.

help bring closure, to bring peace.

From a test fire in the Royal National Park and the purchase of a surfboard bag to the search for a skip bin to dispose of bloody clothing and a secret recording in prison.

We have spent two days on the evidence of a man that Bolimar Condon is alleged to have asked for help following the shooting of Jesse and Luke.

And there in court, as he has given his evidence, has been ABC legal affairs reporter Jamie McKinnell.

Yep.

Guns come up when they get back, or at least when Bola Markondon returns from Bali as well.

This witness says they went to the Royal National Park.

And when they got there, Bola Markondon pulled out a police vest and a radio and a brown paper bag from the back of his car and they walked into the bush.

But that's probably because they didn't.

weigh it down so basically now it's just falling to bits and no real access to get anywhere near it and the whale's not the first to wash up on the coast this year either if you remember there was a whale calf washed up at Sutherland on Greenhills Beach down there I think that was back around the middle of the year and that was tested for bird flu at Lerline Bay you know the decomposed one they'll sample that for bird flu as well In April, at the Royal National Park, it was closed for days after a carcass attacked sharks on the rocks at Arrow Beach.

And one of the professors at Macquarie Uni, Robert Harcourt, has said that, you know, they've bounced back, the shark numbers have bounced back, the humpbacks, to 50,000. on the east coast which is a lot of humpback whales and he said the whale wash-ups would not be as rare as they used to be because their numbers have increased so obviously they die or pass away for some particular reason and end up floating into shore so he's saying to expect a lot of them washing up every year now occasionally adults will wash up as well most he said drift out to sea and every now and again because they're coastal and they're too close to the coast They wash ashore and they're going to run ashore.

Obvious problem, obvious problem is that they attract the sharks.

And now it's just a horrible bloody mess on the rocks that I saw yesterday.

So when they're now saying let nature take its course, I mean, how long is it going to take for the sharks to eat it, to decompose and for the beaches to be safe again? That's the question.

Well, we had one about a year and a half ago over in the Royal National Park, just near Bundina, not far from where a woman was attacked by a bull shark near the Bundina.

Yeah, I mentioned that.

I'm less interested, though, in who the psycho with a gun was who saw Steve and much more in where some of these encounters went down, like the park south of Sydney.

The Royal National Park south of Sydney is massive and it has two sides.

One of them is close to where Ivan Milat told his young sister-in-law he would choose to bury a body.

Do you remember that? Well, while some of these suburbs aren't strictly part of the actual official parkland, they are close to each other.

There are 10 kilometres between Menai and Heathcote, as examples, and the Royal National Park has a road through it with Heathcote on one side.

So it is an enormous area.

But for all intents and purposes, it's the same stomping ground for anyone driving from elsewhere.

Duncan McNabb was a King's Cross police officer in the late 70s to mid-80s.

As you say, that location is really crucial.

Something that's happening in Royal National Park in Sutherland, Illawarra is probably different from if you're up in Gloucester, Barrington Tops, you've got different, even though the conditions may be the same, you've got different things to kind of think about there in the decision making.

Yeah, absolutely.

And just to back up on that, I think one thing that we continually struggle with with a lot of our providers is they do work across different land managers.

Is there a favorite spot that you just love going back to again and again?

Oh, definitely the Blue Mountains and the Royal National Park in Sydney.

Yep.

Uh, because it's just like a couple of ... within a couple of hours drive radius.

It ...

Generally, during the summer we go to Royal National Park because most of the hikes end at the beach.

It's a lovely swim there.

And during the winters we end up heading to the Blue Mountains to just do a good hike and chase some of those lovely birds that come migrate there.

I ran on some trails, but it was all flat.

So I, I'm really fortunate I live near the Royal National Park here down in Southern Sydney, and we've got Lady Carrington's Drive, which is a really beautiful trail.

And for if you're training for an event like UTA, it's not particularly good because it's super flat.

Mm.