26-29/01/2017 - report - photos
Participants: Tom Brennan, Rachel Grindlay, Andrew "Smiffy" Smith, Antoniya Bachvarova
Smiffy also has photos from this trip.
Heading up Coorongooba Creek
At the top of our first pass - it's a bit warm!
Smiffy on his first abseil (our second!)
Rachel on the next abseil
Smiffy on the fourth abseil
Smiffy on the fifth abseil
Rachel on the sixth abseil
Toni bridging, Smiffy pulling the ropes
Rachel at the bottom of the seventh abseil
Toni on the eighth abseil
Smiffy on the ninth abseil ... or is it the tenth ... or ... I've lost count
Toni on some abseil or other
Toni - probably on the tenth abseil
Rachel on the final abseil, whatever number we are up to by now!
Smiffy on the last abseil
Heading out the bottom of the canyon
Our camp cave for the next couple of nights. It rained, so it was a welcome shelter
Rachel reversing one of the drops in our first canyon
Another little upclimb
The most imposing of the drops, though it turned out to be technically not that hard
Smiffy on another upclimb
Finally we make it out on to the ridge - light rain has covered all the spiders webs with droplets
Looking down the next canyon
Rachel abseiling
Looking down canyon
Toni tossing the ropes
Smiffy on the next abseil
Rachel on the abseil
Abseiling into our next canyon - there's a fair bit more water than the previous ones
Rachel in rain jacket preparing to take a soaking
Toni on the abseil - it is possible to cross the falls to avoid getting too wet at the bottom
Smiffy on the big drop, watched by Rachel way below
Toni on the main falls
Toni and Smiffy in the gorge below at dusk
The next morning we are greeted by a lurking Death Adder (Acanthophis antarcticus) outside our cave
Sunlight on spider webs
Rachel in the pretty gorge where we climb out
Rachel abseiling into our first creek - not a canyon unfortunately
Toni on the abseil
Looking down a hole in the next creek
Rachel on perhaps the second abseil - the sun was out so most of the photos are quite contrasty
Smiffy on the next abseil
Looking down the main drop
Rachel on the main abseil
Smiffy abseiling the main drop
Rachel pulling the ropes
Rachel on the final abseil over a large chockstone
Looking out of a dark satanic slot
Toni and Smiffy climbing the pass for the third time that day
Camp in a saddle on the ridge above our final creek
Smiffy and Toni in our final creek, a lovely rainforest gorge, cool given the hot day already outside
Rachel in the gorge
Beautiful section of slabs
Scrambling in the most canyon-like section of the creek (half a canyon!)
Smiffy and Toni scrambling a small fall
Rachel at the top of another excellent section of slabs, with lots of pools for a quick dip
Toni on the first abseil
The creek starts to steepen
Rachel looking for a way down a short drop
Between abseils
Rachel on the third abseil
More slabs leading to...
...the last abseil
Sandy Capertee River
Grassy river flats - would make excellent camping
Capertee cliffs
After the tempest - many tree this size and bigger had been felled by lightning