Blue Breaks

Day 3

Broken Rock Range at dawn

Smiffy looking across to Green Wattle Mountain, with the Gangerangs in the distance

Rachel at our little camp - we didn't bother putting up the fly

Everyone finishing up breakfast while the purple caterpillar (Alex) pupates

Rachel is leading ... but no-one seems keen to follow!

Smiffy forging a path through the nettles in the pass

Blue Gums and flowers in the pass

Alex galloping down the lower part of the ridge

Caladenia sp?

Alex goes for an unintentioned swim

Rachel in a more pleasant section of Green Wattle Creek

Greenhood Orchid (probably Pterostylis curta/Blunt Greenhood)

Climbing the steep scree up to Green Wattle Mountain

The unusual view of the back side of Mt Solitary

Nicole and Alex

Views from Green Wattle Mountain. In the distance from left to right - Gangerang Range, Wild Dog Mountains, Mt Solitary and Kings Tableland

Smiffy conquering Green Wattle Mountain + Liparis reflexa

Dockrillia striolata (Streaked Rock Orchid)

Camp in a grassy clearing in Green Wattle Creek

Nicole has carried oranges and eggs for three days to make cakes for her birthday!

The moment of truth ...

Ta da!! Yummy!

Day 4

Log crossing in Green Wattle Creek

Unfortunately there was plenty of unpleasant scrub in the creek

View back from the end of Vengeance Peninsula - Green Wattle Mountain, Broken Rock Range, Lacys Tableland

Rachel on Vengeance Peninsula

Bull Island Peak (Alchemy Mountain) and the Razorblade

Rachel scrambling down the exposed section on to the thin bit of Vengeance Peninsula

Toni scrambling

Smiffy on the thin bit

Rachel at the top

Looking back down to the thin bit

Blue Breaks panorama

Bull Island Peak (L), Bull Island and Axehead Mountain

Alex patches up a hole in his leg

Rachel and Nicole descending off Vengeance Peninsula

Vengeance Peninsula - still looking ominous

Rachel scrambling off Bull Island

Alex looking across to Axehead Mountain

Rocky tops on Axehead Mountain

Axehead Mountain

Brown Snake sunning itself on a narrowish bit of ridge!

Smiffy and Rachel scrambling

Alex watches Nicole scrambling

Axehead Mountain, Bull Island and Vengeance Peninsula

The final stretch of Axehead Mountain lies ahead

Axehead Mountain

Nicole below the cliffs on one side

Rachel scrambling near the end of the range

Alex's hair demonstrating how windy it is (and is that Toni being blown over in the background?!)

On the road to Yerranderie