On Foot, Lilo & Automobile
The Blue Mountains
21.01.2011 - 23.01.2011
30 °C
Helen, James & I traveled up to the Blue Mountains for some hiking and canyoning for the weekend, our first port of call was James' house in Hazelbrook, Helen & I then drove up to Wentworth Falls; a walk that provides epic views over the Blue Mountain National Park along with the look up to the top of Wentworth Falls itself. We traveled off-piste a little and transcended down to the top of Vera Falls, the river was almost dry which meant you could walk right to the edge of the falls along the bed.
The Blue Mountains
Wentworth Falls
We camped over-night at Mt. Wilson and had a delicious vegetable risotto thanks to Helen's cooking on the camp-fire before retiring to our tents. The next morning after breakfast and a 1hr hike through the bush we descended into Bell Canyon. One particular interesting bit was the traversing of a fallen tree to get to the bottom of a waterfall; near this point the river reached swimming depth so after some lunch we inflated our lilos & wet-suited up to head downstream through caves and past high falls joining the river from other higher canyons. Eventually we came out into a huge gorge and made our way back through the bush to find the car. It was a shattering but awesome experience & after detaching several leeches from our feet & ankles we drove into the suburbs for some late night pizza.
Posted by stoin29 26.01.2011 17:47 Archived in Australia Tagged landscapeswaterfallsmountainstrees
