Rigbees: "lesue"Canarvon Gorge

We had been to the caravan show on the Queens birthday weekend in Brisbane for the past 5 years, so this year we decided to give it a miss and head out to Carnarvon Gorge for the week .Takarakka Bush Camp is where we made camp a nice little spot about 4km from the national park.The rain started during the night and continued on throughout the next day so we did some cooking. We had the diesel heater going most of the day as the temperature dropped to 4 deg in the evening.

It is now Friday the rain has cleared so on with the walking shoes and off to Canarvon Gorge. We walked up to the Moss Gardens which is a good walk for inexperienced walkers like us. It was a delight wandering through the rain forest with the various palms trees and wildflowers enjoying the recent rain. The bottle brush was out in flower they where up in crevice's and rocky outcrops, there yellow flowers added a lot of colour to the bush along with the wattle.

Moss gardens pool

We headed back to camp mid afternoon,after a late lunch we went down to the Platypus pool for some late afternoon photos, unfortunately no Platypus as there where some children there throwing rocks into the pool and the parents just let them do it but reminding them periodically to keep quiet in a load voice (some people just don't get it)

platypus pool

Saturday arrived with some more cold light rain but stopped around midday so off to Mickeys Gorge for a look, after a bit of a rock climb we made it to a beautiful narrow gorge.

This was the highlight of the trip and will return next year with a graphite tripod as i had to leave my old tripod at camp being to heavy to carry, so all my shots where hand held lucky the sun broke through now and then.