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Mini Road Trip Part II
Jun. 17th, 2020 07:53 pmBefore we get to Coffs Harbour, which is where we left off in the actual narrative, some photographic backfilling...
At our first stop... a rickety old timber bridge over an un-named stream, on the way to Baker's Creek Falls. Sure, the bridge was photogenic & I'm sure I'll get 'round to posting its photo, but I can never resist a good sky shot - even with a giant tree in the way!!
From memory, Baker's Creek Falls was where we called it quits all those years ago in OBluV8, as the dirt road was a little too hairy for a low-slung highway cruiser. Despite our Motel lady's assertion that the waterfall roads had all been tarred & buggered, this road was still quite corrugated & pot-holed, with not a hint of bitumen to be seen. Happy Days!!
The Baker's Creek Falls, when you get to the lookout point, are quite a distance away... & a looong way down
A little further along, is Wollomombi Gorge... Wollomombi is an aboriginal word for 'meeting of the waters' - which is apt for this giant hole in the earth where 2 waterfalls meet. Coincidentally, my favourite pub in New South Wales is the Wollombi Tavern, which is just a dialectical(?) difference with the same meaning - where the waters from behind the bar, meet the ones in my digestive tract... Not to be lumped in with the Wollemi Pine, an ancient tree species, meaning 'look around you, keep your eyes open and watch out'... And people say English is a confusing language
It's almost impossible to get your light levels right here - the Gorge is so deep & dark, that even on a rainy day, the light at the top blows everything out... A LOT of PShop remedial work went into this one!! This was the place with the biggest car park & the most amount of picnic tables - 2 of which were overtaken & probably overwhelmed by the hyena family I mentioned yesterday. There was a 2nd walking track that looked like it may have taken us down & closer to the waterfall on the left, but having seen the cackling horde heading that way, we decided to get a decent time jump on them & leave it 'til next time. You always need an excuse to come back, right?
Of course, sometimes, as you're walking back to the car, having done your best to capture the best Nature has to offer & you think you're done with photos, for the next few kilometres, anyway... something else catches your eye
Then it's just a matter of waiting for everyone else in their oversized shiny-sided behemoths to get the hell out of your shot, without driving through the puddle & emptying it
To finish today's photo spam, here's a surprise waterfall... well, it was a surprise to us!
Newell Falls, closer to the Coffs Harbour end of the Way. Completely unheralded & without a really convenient place to stop, we pretty much just pulled into a breakdown bay to get this shot. The Falls continue under the road, via the tunnel you can see at right. I'll post a wider shot, without a car, when I get 'round to it
On a personal note for today... it was one of those days when you wish you had at least 4 job applications in the works, so you could tell your current employer exactly where & exactly how far up, he can stick both his attitude AND his job
Today was, unfortunately, not that day... But it may not be far off
At our first stop... a rickety old timber bridge over an un-named stream, on the way to Baker's Creek Falls. Sure, the bridge was photogenic & I'm sure I'll get 'round to posting its photo, but I can never resist a good sky shot - even with a giant tree in the way!!
From memory, Baker's Creek Falls was where we called it quits all those years ago in OBluV8, as the dirt road was a little too hairy for a low-slung highway cruiser. Despite our Motel lady's assertion that the waterfall roads had all been tarred & buggered, this road was still quite corrugated & pot-holed, with not a hint of bitumen to be seen. Happy Days!!
The Baker's Creek Falls, when you get to the lookout point, are quite a distance away... & a looong way down
A little further along, is Wollomombi Gorge... Wollomombi is an aboriginal word for 'meeting of the waters' - which is apt for this giant hole in the earth where 2 waterfalls meet. Coincidentally, my favourite pub in New South Wales is the Wollombi Tavern, which is just a dialectical(?) difference with the same meaning - where the waters from behind the bar, meet the ones in my digestive tract... Not to be lumped in with the Wollemi Pine, an ancient tree species, meaning 'look around you, keep your eyes open and watch out'... And people say English is a confusing language
Of course, sometimes, as you're walking back to the car, having done your best to capture the best Nature has to offer & you think you're done with photos, for the next few kilometres, anyway... something else catches your eye
To finish today's photo spam, here's a surprise waterfall... well, it was a surprise to us!
On a personal note for today... it was one of those days when you wish you had at least 4 job applications in the works, so you could tell your current employer exactly where & exactly how far up, he can stick both his attitude AND his job
Today was, unfortunately, not that day... But it may not be far off
