Crikey Canyon - 21 February 2010

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Party - Su Li, Smithy, Disco, Dave

Thanks to the members of UNSW Outdoors Club for letting me join their trip



Above - Looking down the first abseil



Above - Disco setting up the rope for the second/third abseils (these two drops are now combined together)



Above - Looking back upstream - Su Li and Smithy pulling down the rope on the first abseil



Above - Disco starts off down a narrow hole







Above - Disco at the bottom. We used the same belay point for the third abseil, which is nearby.



Above - The canyon is very dark here. Su Li and Smithy at the bottom of the third abseil



Above - canyon formation



Above - Su Li at the top of the fifth abseil













Above - Looking back upstream



Above - Smithy on the fifth abseil



Above - in the canyon. This part is a very deep and dark corridor. Photography is very difficult - there is almost no light!







Above - canyon formation



Above - canyon formation



Above - the corridor ends with a right angle bend - into a long cold pool



Above - Su Li about to start the swim







Above - Disco and Smithy in the canyon



Above - further downstream - the sixth abseil



Above - Disco abseiling, Smithy below



Above - Su Li abseiling



Above - canyon formation



Above - Disco on the last (seventh) abseil





Above - Smithy on the seventh abseil



Above - Su Li in a section of boulders and logs in Bungleboori Creek North Branch

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