Day 13 - Kings Canyon Rim walk - an unlucky day

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Up bright and early to set off for the Kings Canyon Rim Walk. The resort is only a few kilometres away from the starting point of the walks.

Firstly, there is an endless (hundreds anyway) number of steps to be climbed as you ascend from the creek floor to the top of the gorge.

From there you meander around the top visiting lookouts and other points of interest until you get to the back of the gorge where the Garden of Eden is located.

It's a hard slog but worth the effort as this is one of the top walks in Australia. We drank lots of water and ran out with about a kilometre of the 6 km walk to complete.

At this point, Georgi took a trip / stumble and both she and the camera hit the ground / rocks hard. Georgi was bruised and grazed but was most upset because the camera lens was broken. When I took a closer look it seemed that the lens might be OK but the filter was smashed and the lens body had been damaged. A trip to the camera specialists was required to assess the damage. We limped back to the bus and then back to the resort to lick our wounds.

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Photos

Up to the rim walk
That's where we are going

100 steps up
Are we there yet?

One of the lookouts
A bridge (to the left) leads to one of the lookouts. We will be there in an hour.

A little local
Nicely camoflauged on the rock.

Looking south from the rim
Back towards the carpark and Kings Creek Station. Trees mark the route of Kings Creek.

Looking in to the gorge
Some quite large trees grow up on the rim - you need to "shade hop" when it gets really hot.

The bed of an ancient sea
Look for the sand ripples from millions of years ago

A girl must do her yoga
Taking every opportunity

Are those people waving at us?
The hordes that started at 7am (must be a tour group) on the other side - about two hours ahead of us.

Above Kings Creek footbridge
That's our shadows (bottom LHS) on the footbridge.

Lunch stop
We had lunch and cooled our feet under the footbridge

The rockpool at Garden of Eden
There are trees to the RHS (and behind) - this photo is to show the scale of the gorge.

At the one way gate
On really hot days (above 35C) you can do the rim walk backwards to ascend to the rim but this is as far as you can come - to the one way gate. It's about a two hour walk (instead of four).....and you get to the top.

The Garden of Eden from the other side
Looking down into the Garden and the rockpool.

That other side has cracks in it!!
That's the side that we walked on earlier!

Shade hopping
On the way back now

A last lookout view
About to descend

Comments

[Mel]

Onwards and upwards ... :-)
Looking good bro!! The outdoors suits you! Sorry to hear about your fall Georgi. :-( At least you are OK!! Things can be replaced or done without, but a broken ankle would have been a major hiccup! Take care u2 xx

[LennyGeorgi]

To infinity and beyond!
Thanks Mel! A bit of a blog catch-up tonight.... Our last night at Mataranka. A great little place.