Pindar Cave, cave in Australia

Pindar Cave is a large sandstone overhang in Brisbane Water National Park near Wondabyne. The natural formation extends roughly 50 meters with a sandy floor and open areas surrounded by smooth stone walls and a light-colored ceiling.

The overhang lies in a plateau peninsula bordered by Mullet Creek to the east and Mooney Mooney Creek to the west. Both creeks are drowned valleys formed when ocean levels rose at the end of the last ice age, isolating the peninsula where the shelter sits.

The name Pindar comes from the surrounding locality on the plateau peninsula between Mullet Creek and Mooney Mooney Creek. The overhang sits in heath and dry sclerophyll forest, and walkers use it as a rain shelter and campsite for up to sixty people, as the formation is an overhang rather than a true cave.

The only practical access from Sydney is the Central Coast & Newcastle Line Intercity train from Central Station to Wondabyne, northeast of Pindar. There are no roads at Wondabyne; the escarpment behind the station is too precipitous. From the station, follow the marked trail to the overhang, which is large enough for sixty walkers to camp overnight under its shelter away from wet weather.

The overhang shelters up to sixty walkers camping overnight out of the rain, a capacity noted in accounts of the formation. The sandstone concavity sits on a plateau peninsula of heath and dry sclerophyll forest between Mullet Creek and Mooney Mooney Creek, both drowned valleys flooded when ocean levels rose after the last ice age.