04-05/01/2014 - photos

Participants: Tom Brennan, Rachel Grindlay, Gill Fowler, Caoimhin Ardren, Richard Pattison, Andrew "Smiffy" Smith, Antoniya Bachvarova, Sue Bucknell

Day 1

Sue abseiling into the canyon

Sue on the short second abseil

Gill sliding on one of many waterjumps

Gill on a slippery downclimb

Rachel

Gill, Rachel and Toni in the canyon

Rachel and Gill

Sue

Smiffy and Toni

Gill on a short abseil

Rachel

Rachel on a log

Approaching a short swim

Rachel may look like she's wading, but it's deeper than that!

Smiffy jumping

Smiffy at the top of the third successive jump (for him anyway! The first was into water not much more than knee deep so I opted out of that one!)

Gill abseiling the second jump

The dark cavern of the third jump

Canyon formation

Gill finds one way to attack this slippery downclimb...

...while Toni tries another. Smiffy jumps it!

Rachel bridging

Toni on a downclimb

Smiffy swimming after another jump

Rich and Caoimhin have independently scrambled up into the bottom of the canyon, Rich with a Thomas the Tank Engine cake that has been sitting in his car for over two weeks at temps of over 50°C! What is most scary is that it was still edible!

One of the dead goannas this canyon seems to be popular with