Oh my – words just fail me – which is going to be a bit of a problem given I have a blog post to write. I’ll do my best to convey the wonder of my canyoning adventure but may have to resort to some fairly overused adjectives such as awesome, amazing, incredible, mind-blowing etc., etc…
I mean, I thought the gorges were pretty remarkable anyway, but nothing prepared me for my epic adventure into the heart of old Karijini. There is nothing quite like going places that you can’t ordinarily get to – being so remote that it seems like you are the only people on the planet while simultaneously reminding you how insignificant our lives are in the presence of rocks millions of years old.
Made it
I don’t know which I enjoyed more: sliding down a natural water slide before plunging four meters into an icy cold pool, lazily paddling down the river while the 100m red rock cliffs loomed above us, abseiling down the side of a waterfall, climbing up a waterfall – the list goes on. I threw myself into every challenge that came my way and I did it all until I met my nemesis in the form of a rock wall which needed to be climbed. Half way up my bravery deserted me as I could not find purchase for my hands or feet to make it any further and panic (and tears) ensued. However I’m not one to let such a thing defeat me for long and eventually pulled myself together and made it to the top whereupon I hugged the rock face until I’d stopped sobbing. I can laugh about it now but it’s very sobering to come up against something that makes you so fearful when you weren’t expecting it.
Anyway, a gallery of my day is below… In the meantime, I need to get some rock climbing practise in so I can go back to Karijini and do this adventure again as it was awesome, amazing, incredible, mind-blowing etc., etc…
Galimatias 