The weather promise is occasional showers, but somehow that’s not an issue for us. The day is a bit cool and overcast to start with, but in less than ½ hour on the road, the sun peaks out and stays with us.
I love heading down the Mount Lindsay
highway as once you are out of suburbia, the road opens up and the views of
distance mountain tops are wonderful.
Scenic Rim ...
Mount Maroon
Mount May
Within
1.5 hours we are at our destination and
choosing the location for our camp.
Sometimes this can be quite an effort for both of us and on occasion a difference
of opinion can occur. Thankfully this is
not one of those occasions.
The day promises so far to be warm and sunny, but
we’ve got a forecast for showers so we’ll see what happens there. As always here, the wind is coming from all
directions so deciding on the direction of the camper is simply down to giving
us some privacy from the constant traffic that we know will come in to check
the falls and head up the hill. Facing
towards the creek seems to be the best for us although you do have a hard time
seeing it as we are up a bit higher than it is.
We can’t hear it trickling or gurgling or babbling, but it is running.
Once set up completely, it’s up to see what the falls
are doing as they are just a short walk from camp. They are falling brilliantly (as I suspected)
due to recent rain caused by ex tropical cyclone Oswald. The pools heading up there have been transformed
and are now larger and deeper than before.
Of course, Telashi is straight in the water and frolicking around
yipping at some ridiculous decibel. Once
she’s thoroughly wetted and yipped out we head downstream to see what’s to
see.
People have been camping below the campground on the
southern end as it’s a bit more secluded than the open campground. I’m thinking kids most likely as the fire
remains are large and they haven’t been very thoughtful when it comes to the
rubbish – which really gets my feathers ruffled.
At the northern end of the campground where it becomes
private land again and near where the crossing is, there is another deeper hole
which Telashi must also swim in.
We head back to camp after wandering up the hill a
little ways to check out a strange sight.
A tree growing out of a rock … well it really looked like it was
splitting the rock in half.
Back at camp we while the day away drinking, preparing
dinner, watching people park their cars and head off on a hike, watch people
park their cars and wander to the waterfall, throw the ball as we must do, sit,
drink and contemplate life. Is there
anything better?
It gets busy here ...
Boys heading out ...
It does start to sprinkle so we put up an end wall and
listen to the sound of rain on the canvas, which I think is one of the best
things about camping. Rain on canvas is
a special sound like no other in life.
When the rain eases, we head off on another amble away
from camp. I noted an old tank in the
paddock below (which is private property) and head over to check it out. I am dismayed to find it filled with filthy
lazy bastard’s rubbish. Nothing makes me
more irate than this sort of anti-camping behaviour. People with attitudes like this close
campsites for the rest of us. I wish I
had a trailer to collect it all but I don’t … there is just too much of it for
us to remove without an empty ute tray.
I also find rubbish in one of the fire pits. Nearly all the rubbish is recyclable.
I always collect things around camp that other people
have left behind – smoke butts, stubbie lids, twist ties, bread ties, hair
ties, straws – I carry gloves and spare rubbish bags for this purpose – which
is disappointing to say the least – that I actually have to do this. But do it I do. I’m not camping in someone else’s rubbish
tip!
It really is pathetic that people can’t abide by a
simple camping rule: TAKE OUT WHAT YOU
BRING IN / TAKE NOTHING BUT PHOTOS – LEAVE NOTHING BUT FOOTPRINTS … why is this
so hard to get through the heads of some people? I am at a loss as to why some people still
think this planet is their rubbish bin! GGGRRRRRR!
We head back to camp to set up the OzPig and organise
dinner. Once we eat dinner, we head down to check out the wildlife in the creek.
Afterwards, we sit
watching the flames of the fire with the occassional crack and pop, listening
to the frogs and cicada’s serenade us until it’s time to sleep. Unfortunately the creek isn’t flowing enough
so that we can hear it from camp.
I awake through the night to the sound of rain on the
canvas. How soothing.
5.6AH
17.02.13
Next day we awake late and find the day sunny and
warm.
After breakfast, we head up to the waterfall again to
let the dogs swim. Glenn heads up the
walking track on Mount May a short way and comes back to report that it goes
straight up for a distance, but it’s a fairly defined track for a short
distance. We guess its defined due to
the number of walkers. Sitting in the
cool shade of the large overhanging rocks, it’s easy to think the rest of the
world doesn’t exist.
As we did yesterday, we take the long way back to camp
… via the creek and lower camps. It’s
peaceful so far today, with limited traffic and people noise.
The boys camping opposite us have wandered away from
camp. I’m guessing they have headed up
the walking track as well for a look.
Before too long they are back and starting breakfast.
It’s still early, but we start our slow pack up. The canvas is dry and we don’t want it to get
wet again, so start getting organised so we can just drop the awning and close
things up if we see rain. The boys
opposite are packing up also.
Of course there is ball throwing and moments of rest. We also have to fit in lunch. Once readied, Glenn suggests we close the
camper, have lunch and then go. We’ll be
leaving a bit earlier than usual, but we’ve had our fill of this place this
weekend and have things to do at home.
The trip home is fairly uneventful, although we see
more turtles on the road than normal … not all of them are road kill, but
doubtless, soon will be.
Once home, I’m surprised to find we’ve had 10.5mm of
precipitation.
19.8AH
Trip Kilometres:
239
Trip Duration: 48 hours
2 comments:
Hi I've just check out your trip to waterfall reverse but it Rosen,t tell me where it is can let know the address please. Vince
Hi Vince,
Click on the "location" above and you will find a map which gives you the map location.
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