Gardens of Stone – More Photography – 7 July 2015

I headed up the mountains with Bob. Our objective was to visit a canyon in the Gardens of Stone area. It was a canyon that I had visited quite a few years earlier, and one that I thought may provide some photo opportunities for the Gardens of Stone In Focus Photographic Competition.

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Unlike many of the canyons in the Gardens of Stone, this canyon is fairly wet. It has a fair bit of water going through it and some quite deep pools. But it was a very cold way. Well, we hoped to bridge all these pools.

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The walk in to the canyon was fairly short – down a fire road, along a scrubby ridge and then down a scrubby side gully. In front of us was the canyon. We had to get wet feet as we walk through the canyon. At the deep pools – we did manage to bridge them and avoid getting really wet. It was a bit tricky though – for me – with a camera dangling around my neck and a tripod in my hand. But it was worthwhile – the canyon was quite pretty and did provide a series of nice photos.

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After my photo taking, we headed out up a differs ridge than the one we had gone down and then found ourselves back on the fire road.

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Our second objective was not far away – a large sandstone cave. This was soon reached and I took a few more photos. This cave is typical in form for the area – these large wind eroded caves seem quite common in the Gardens of Stone, but this one was very large and went in a fair way to form a high vaulted aven.

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The majority of photos of the canyon that I took for the competition will be posted later.

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