Just had a delightful impromptu nearly-bush walk. In town for Friday shopping, camera in car as usual, I thought it would be worth seeing how much extra water was coming down the gorge for the wildwater canoeing event. Not much movement near the bridge, so headed up the zigzag track and looked for vantage points along the way. There was a fair bit of white water upstream, and it was a magnificent day, so somehow I forgot to turn back ... skirted what I later realised were barricades blocking former track which is now the construction site of the wondrous new "inclinator" ... back-tracked, found a new route giving access to gorge downstream of the causeway (now under water), then headed back to the suspension bridge. Couldn't resist taking the Duck Reach track for a while ... had forgotten what how beautiful it was ... watched canoeing activity ... eventually conscience started pricking so back to suspension bridge and return via the western track. Lots of activity in the water there, so progress was rather slow ... not sure quite what was going on, but very colourful with red presumably rescue boats, canoeists carrying their craft over rocks, some struggling with a bit of rock-climbing etc.
It was a terrific 2 hours, a bit like playing hooky from school
. My "To Do" list for the day has barely been touched, but I'm still on a high!
We're so luck to have a place like this so easily accessible, if only it always had a respectable amount of water flowing
Anyhow. if anyone's at a loose end over the weekend and doesn't want to go too far afield, there'll be water coming down both days. There will no doubt be hoards more people than I saw today, but also racing on the water rather than just practice. The weather looks like it's going to be great too.
