Sunday 23 June 2024

A creek crossing

Another creek crossing

Pain Gauge, otherwise known as elevation information.

Yes, we did climb hills…

Same creek crossing…

Beautiful reflections

Regrouping at the high point along the way

Beginning of the bushbash.

Photos courtesy of Rob, DonnaG,and Amanda. Walk report courtesy of Walk Leader Rob.

We had the perfect winter weather for a hard walk in the Deua NP – sunny, no wind and temperatures in the mid-teens. 10 walkers set out to do the Donalds Creek walk last done as a reccie in 2016.

We knew part of the walk on a long abandoned firetrail would have vegetation regrowth after the 2019/20 fires however we were amazed at how dense the vegetation was. This slowed the group down and our planned 5 hr walk took 7 hrs to complete. We joined the Ash Firetrail which we also walked in 2016 and while we were expecting some regrowth the big surprise was all the fallen trees and branches from a very recent wind storm that were crushing many of the young casuarinas on the road and making our passage very slow. Donald’s Creek was flowing well and the cameras were out capturing the creek and still pools with incredible reflections.

I have included an elevation profile captured on the day with GPS to show that the walkers really did climb a lot of hills in their 15km hike.