Hello and welcome to Monday!
I am glad I had part two of our walk up my sleeve for tonight! Today I did a lot of sitting about in front of the fire with my crochet!
Jeff and I have not walked to Doone Falls before… mostly when we do the Rocky Cape to Sisters Beach walk, we go the coastal route because we are nerds and love to fossick for shells and rocks!
Jeff spotted the rather run down sign and on a whim we thought, what the heck?? We had no appointments and its only half an hour….
The weather cleared somewhat and the views became nicer as we got higher
And up…
I swear it must have been half an hour later when we finally came across this sign – that said we had 15 minutes to go!
Our suspicions were aroused when we noticed that someone had ‘amended’ the time to 45 minutes
Still… we had come this far…
And then we were standing at the top of a path that went dooooown!
And got a bit narrow
It continued down… and into a switchback. And the thing about going steeply down is thinking about having to come all the way back up!!
We reached this little running stream and bridge and I will admit to being momentarily disappointed!!
Finally we could hear proper falling water and started seeing more of a waterway rushing down below us (I might add that by this stage we were very much over the 15 minute mark!)
I don’t think I have ever come across a waterfall that has created so many bubbles before!
It was a soup of froth!!
I couldn’t help it… I had to scoop some up and see what it felt like! Actually it was soft, foamy and slippery. If it had of been a summers day I totally would have jumped right on in!!
It was a funny little waterfall tucked in the rocks with essentially a waterslide down
The water was the usual stained colour
Well, the day wasn’t getting any younger & neither were we, so we started the haul back uphill
One useful thing about having the camera is a fabulous excuse to stop whenever you like to take photos (pant pant, gasp, wheeze)
Oh look! A weird tree!! Let me just lean against it and get a photo for my blog (wheeze, gasp, pant)
It was lovely getting to the top of that section and coming back out into the beautiful warm winter light
I am thinking whoever does these signs is a super fit sprinter – We are not THAT slow really, but the timings on most of these was rather optimistic!
We had never gone this way and were hoping that it was going to be less work than going all the way back to the beach and up that killer hill!
Oh – and one other minor detail – we forgot to bring water bottles.
Let me amend that.
I just didn’t bother.
Wow – our tongues were hanging out by this stage so after going up another incline…
I heard some running water by the path and plunged into the bush to get to it – lapped up a few handfuls then found a ziplock bag to give to Jeff to collect more
I am trying to work out how many of you are freaking out right now about the colour of this water and wondering did we really drink that???
It was cold and tasted so good!! 🙂
Most of Tasmania’s natural waterways are quite drinkable – but I know you are all asking to yourselves how many days I will be absent from my blog with a tummy bug. hee hee
Well… this was Saturday and I am happy to report that all gastrointestinal areas are just fine!! (So far!)
So after the refreshments, we really had to get a wriggle on as twilight was setting in
Well.. It was a grand little adventure and we thoroughly enjoyed getting back out in the great outdoors for some fresh air and exercise! Glad we did too as it really hasn’t stopped raining since!
Cheers!
Beautiful interesting colors you have there. I enjoyed your pictures!
Thank-you Jennifer! It was such an enjoyable afternoon