Kalamina Gorge was todays destination , we'd been down here before , but didn't reach the rock arch at the end of the walk .
There's a waterfall tucked away below a paperbark tree at the start of the track , making for a very impressive start . It's in the next photo , but hidden by the tree .
Water is seeping down plant roots & cracks in the rocks , as well as coming over the top of the rocks . The suns out making photo's hard to take with huge contrast between light & dark .
Visual indications on the trees of previous floods - 2 metres of water flooding down here would be a sight to see .
The walk here is over a lot of flat rock shelves in a wider gorge than previous days walks .
A fig tree was clinging to life and the gorge wall , roots following the cracks & crevices to find water .
I got to take some time exposures in some spots , they came out well .
Very few flowers down in this gorge - this was the only yellow flower we saw and it contrasts well against the orange of the gorge wall .
There are some larger pools of water , most aren't very deep at all .
Rock formations again feature regularly .
And we reached the end , to find a large deep pool of water disappearing past a couple of high gorge walls , there's also the rock arch on the right hand side . The water is cold , a couple arrived after us and went for a swim - they weren't in for long!!
These next photo's are looking back from where we came .
We made our way back to the carpark , and I made a short diversion to the waterfall under the tree - it was in shade and made for better photo's .
This is the pool the waterfall flows into .
And with that done , we had some lunch before heading back to the van . Here's a map link :-https://drive.google.com/open?id=1Qa3WAv7xCoSROivmM_pEsYJDaKXWKnc3&usp=sharing
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