Sunday 17 March 2024
Photos courtesy of Rob, Amanda and Tom. Walk report courtesy Walk Leader Rob.
Eight walkers and a visitor experienced a new walk for the club on Cowdroys Creek, near Narooma. While the weather looked ominous at the start with conflicting reports of when and how much rain we could expect the crew set off in good spirits. The walk starts on the short sign-posted “Rainforest Walk’ off Kianga Rd and at the bottom of the gully we jumped into Cowdroys Creek and headed downstream.
The walk description promised a ‘creek walk with some bank scrambling’. The reality was the opposite as the creek was flowing stronger than when the reccie was done a few weeks ago and the pools were too deep to jump or wade. No one seemed to mind and we found some old bike tracks, long since abandoned, to navigate along the stream. The forecasted rain never arrived but wet weather gear was needed to wade through wet vegetation.
This is a very photogenic location enhanced by the flowing creek, small waterfalls, wet vegetation and colourful raingear worn by our walkers. The only negative was the leeches who were out in full force and all rest stops were made standing up with mandatory inspections of boots and pants for these critters. After 4kms of creek walking we found the pink ribbon left by the reccie walkers telling us it was time to join an old logging road and head upslope on the trail back to the cars. With no slips or falls and minimal blood stains from leech bites we all agreed this was a great walk.