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Hiya folks
Hope all are enjoying the run up to Christmas.
Yesterday we decided to make another pre brekkie stroll down the escarpment to check on the waters down there in the rainforest. We have received about 250-300mm since rains began back in October but the showers kinda fizzled out during November and December. The weather has been fiercely hot and humid. Luckily the showers are due back this week.
So we wandered down together through the infernal heat and flies and descended into what we call the northern gulley, not the closest to our house -but the easiest to climb down into.
The Boy led us, he knows this country well -but takes some different routes to us bipeds. He has his own secret pathways around the steeper climbing sections.
As we expected, we found water trickling from the escarpment and some shallow pools with small fish but not the thundering waterfalls and surging torrents that follow the onset of the rains..
We started climbing down through the series of descending cascades but as the sun rose it became hotter and swarming insects drove us to seek refuge in a pool. Sausages and eggs on toast and lashings of tea seemed like a really good idea so we decided to beat a retreat back up the escarpment. The Boy led us the shortest way home along one of his routes. I tossed him an extra sausage for that service.
Although a pleasant stroll we didn't find much water or see anything new -so we're not really exploring.
Over the breakfast table we decided to make our next foray out to the second gulley further north. Neither my wife or I have yet been there. It is quite possible that nobody ever has. At least not in the last few hundred years of European settlement. I have flown over it and it looks interesting.
We will go after we have serious rains during the Christmas period to see it wet, even if the traverse down becomes more difficult (canyoning?).
Some pics from the stroll yesterday: Don't do justice to the heat humidity and biting insects...
Looking down into the forest
Trees on the cliff face
Our guide does his thing
Me following The Boy down
We reach a dry waterfall and reduced pool
A snap down the gulley from inside a pool
Looking down the cascade to lower pools about 30-40m down This all becomes a continuous torrent in the wet season.
Hope all are enjoying the run up to Christmas.
Yesterday we decided to make another pre brekkie stroll down the escarpment to check on the waters down there in the rainforest. We have received about 250-300mm since rains began back in October but the showers kinda fizzled out during November and December. The weather has been fiercely hot and humid. Luckily the showers are due back this week.
So we wandered down together through the infernal heat and flies and descended into what we call the northern gulley, not the closest to our house -but the easiest to climb down into.
The Boy led us, he knows this country well -but takes some different routes to us bipeds. He has his own secret pathways around the steeper climbing sections.
As we expected, we found water trickling from the escarpment and some shallow pools with small fish but not the thundering waterfalls and surging torrents that follow the onset of the rains..
We started climbing down through the series of descending cascades but as the sun rose it became hotter and swarming insects drove us to seek refuge in a pool. Sausages and eggs on toast and lashings of tea seemed like a really good idea so we decided to beat a retreat back up the escarpment. The Boy led us the shortest way home along one of his routes. I tossed him an extra sausage for that service.
Although a pleasant stroll we didn't find much water or see anything new -so we're not really exploring.
Over the breakfast table we decided to make our next foray out to the second gulley further north. Neither my wife or I have yet been there. It is quite possible that nobody ever has. At least not in the last few hundred years of European settlement. I have flown over it and it looks interesting.
We will go after we have serious rains during the Christmas period to see it wet, even if the traverse down becomes more difficult (canyoning?).
Some pics from the stroll yesterday: Don't do justice to the heat humidity and biting insects...
Looking down into the forest
Trees on the cliff face
Our guide does his thing
Me following The Boy down
We reach a dry waterfall and reduced pool
A snap down the gulley from inside a pool
Looking down the cascade to lower pools about 30-40m down This all becomes a continuous torrent in the wet season.
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