The Sunday was meant to be overcast with possible late showers. Sounds good, but it turned out to be clearing with bloody hot afternoon. Local temps reached 36 by the coast so we would have been hotter again. Anyhow we headed off on foot about 11.30am, told the bride to give us about 3 hours to walk and photograph the creek and what we find. Famous last words. We finally made it to the rendezvous point about 6.45pm, totally knackered, dehydrated regardless of how much water we drank due to the heat and the terrain we ended up climbing.
All up we would have walked about 4kms of creek and dropped 200 meters, but wow what a section of creek so diverse. From a typical rain forest stream to cascades to waterfall, 10-15 meters high to smaller double falls, into one plunge poo into the next etc, to a gorge before going into a canyon where after the third plunge pool with vertical rock pools 2 to 3 meters high before disappearing around the rock cliffs to more waterfalls cascades and back to the babbling brook we are used to.
Very early in the piece I knew we were going to be over time maybe by an hour or so, and stopped taking photos trying to make time, but the heat killed us and we needed to stop very regularly to rest before being able to continue. These are a few of the photos, first few from camera and last couple with phone camera but stopped taking all photos and still ended up being 4 hours overdue, but at least we made the rendezvous point in daylight.
Definitely a place I will be going back to but will get there early in the morning and allow the full day to really enjoy the place. Enjoy the photos.
