Tuesday, July 12, 2011

Bell Gorge

Monday 4th  July

It was very pretty scenery driving to Silent Grove campground...had a few stops to look at birds.

Kapok trees and Kurrajongs were common and we wound through the Leopold Ranges. The road condition was really good.

Queen Victoria’s head...a strange rock formation.




.... it was 25 degrees by 9am and was very hot by the time we arrived. But we found a good camp site and then took our lunch with us to Bell Gorge where we enjoyed a lovely swim in pools at the base of the gorge.





We had to scramble up rocks and through water to reach the gorge itself, but it is a breathtaking gorge with water cascading down a wide waterfall into a big pool where people were swimming.



Rob S spotted a Mertons Water Monitor, perched on a rock in the water,



Then on the way back, he spotted another one climbing up a tree when we stopped to look at some birds bathing.


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