Coorongooba Labyrinth Canyoning - 27 - 31 December 2009
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Party - Rik, Martin, Steffy, Su Li, John, Dave
For many summers a group of us have been heading off to the Northern
Blue Mountains for an extended canyoning trip starting on Boxing day.
This year - Boxing day was very wet, so we headed off a day later. The
weather forecast was not good -with rain forecast for the next few
days. Despite the rain we had quite a reasonable trip.
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Day 1
Above - Steffy and Martin
Above - Rik found some faint aboriginal charcoal drawings in this small
cave at the head of our creek.
Above - The cave
Above - Our first creek - not always as nice as this
Above - Climbing down the creek
Above - The creek
Above - on an earlier trip we had discovered this small side canyon. We
were not sure that it was worth the effort to explore it from above
Above - The side canyon
Day 2
Above - We had stayed in this big cave in a defile in the creek. It was
a good campsite - but heavy, continuous rain overnight had blown in.
Above - We set off for a side trip to another canyon
Above - Su Li in the canyon
Above - Su Li on the first abseil. Rik below.
Above - Rik on the very narrow second abseil. This takes you to the
bottom of a long, deep and very narrow slot.
Above - John abseiling down
Above - canyon formation
Above - creek detail
Day 3
Above - Steffy
Above - Rik
Above - We leave the first creek system and climb onto a ridge.
Above - John, Martin and Rik on the ridge
Above - On the ridge - John, Rik, Steffy and Su Li
Above - Rik heading into the second canyon. This is one we had found on
an earlier trip. On that occasion we had climbed up from the bottom -
and been able to climb up all the drops.
Above - Rik in the creek
Above - Scrambling down the creek
Above - Rik arrives at the start of the canyon. It looks good!
Above - With the rain - it was very slippery, so we use a rope to
scramble down into the canyon
Above - John
Above - in the canyon
Above - canyon formation
Above - canyon formation
Above - John in the canyon
Above - canyon formation
Above - Steffy in the canyon
Above - Steffy and Martin in the canyon
Above - Steffy in a very dark section
Above - Martin and John in the canyon
Above - canyon formation
Above - canyon formation
Above - canyon formation
Above - In the canyon
Above - Martin in the canyon
Above - Rik in the canyon
Above - A fast moving Steffy and a faster moving John
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