15-20/06/2015 - photos

Participants: Tom Brennan, Rachel Grindlay, Caro Ryan, Alan Osland, Sheila McDowall, Paul McCann

Day 10

Grass? No, a rather green pool. Thankfully one that can be walked around rather than swam through.

Sheila and Rachel swimming the canyon at the end of the first section of gorge

Jane, Jane and Jane?

Cane toad - unfortunately they have made it here as well

Rachel at the entrance to the Bat Canyon

Caro heading for deep water

Rachel in a shallow spot in the pool

Swimming through the guano-filled water - an olfactory treat!

Sheila checking out the massively deep canyon

Canyon formation

Caro and Alan

Sheila waiting for the clogging to clear

Alan scrambles out

Sheila continues up the canyon

Canyon formation

Rachel and Alan at the turnaround point - blocked by a short but slippery waterfall

Caro, Sheila and Rachel heading back

Swimming one of the pools

Canyon formation

Alan climbing back from exploring a side gorge

Rachel and Caro wading back in the main gorge

Caro near the junction of three gorges

Aboriginal art on the walls of the narrowest gorge

In the gorge - reflections

Alan and Caro wading, the closest we come to a swim

Rachel on a ledge with some faint aboriginal art

Sheila looks back at the narrow gorge we have walked up

At the head of our gorge, a dark chasm awaited us. Looking out from inside the chasm

Alan trying to get further upstream without a swim

Alan admiring the canyon

Canyon formation

Canyon formation

Canyon formation

Sheila and Rachel looking for the way up into the chasm

Rachel cooling off after a hot day

Sheila admiring the deep slot

Sunset on the cliffs above our campsite

Rachel at camp on top of the waterfall

Camping platform

Sunset

Day 11

On the way up the gorge the next morning, we head up this side gorge...

...to a massive dry waterfall

The party heading up the recently burnt gorge - Rachel, Alan, Sheila, Caro, Paul

We drop into a rocky gorge, which is pleasant walking but no flowing water

Paul at the top of a dry fall

Rachel and Sheila at a water lily pool

Looking down another dry fall

Climbing down a small dry fall to a pool for morning tea

Water Lilies (Nymphaea sp)

Rachel and Sheila bypassing another pool

Green Tree Snake cooling itself in a pool

The creek that we have been following leads into the top of the Bat Canyon - Rachel and Alan heading towards the entrance

Unfortunately the way is barred by a 12m overhanging waterfall

Rachel and Alan relaxing at the waterfall

Rachel enjoying a swim at the bottom of the main dry fall in the creek

In order to check out the pass that we intend to take the next day, Rachel, Alan and I follow a route across the tops that involves crossing two gorges - Alan and Rachel scrambling in the first gorge

Alan at the top of the large dry fall, the same one that we walked up to in the morning

View from the top of the falls

Rachel scrambling down a steep pass into the second gorge

Rachel in the canyon downstream from the pass - the same canyon that opens out in the chasm

Rachel in the canyon

Alan and Rachel reversing a short but slippery drop

Looking down into the gorge where we are camped, beneath the cliffs in the sun