Colo River Walk - 28 - 29 October 2017

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Route - Mountain Lagoon - Mailes Ridge - Colo Meroo - Colo River - Tootie Creek Junction - T3 Track - Mountain Lagoon

Party - Wendy, Martin, Steffy, Dave N



Above - On the Gospers Ridge Firetrail on the way to Mailes Ridge



Above - Fringe Lilly



Above - On Mailes Ridge



Above - A nice lookout overlooking the Colo River



Above - The Colo River



Above - That evening, we camped at the grassy spots to the left of the big sandbank on the bend



Above - Panorama - Colo Gorge



Above - Wendy photographing



Above - One of many goannas that we saw



Above - From the end of Mailes Ridge - looking down to the farms of the lower Colo



Above - Colo River near Colo-Meroo



Above - Wendy photographing



Above - Colo River. Shallow and sandy.



Above - Typical Colo River along the first 5 km section to the bend. Easy, but tiring walking across the sand banks and shallow water, with the occasional bit of quicksand to contend with.





Above - Our campsite



Above - Looking up to Mailes Ridge



Above - Dawn - Colo River







Above - Colo rapids



Above - Water Gums



Above - Along the section from the bend to Tootie Creek - the pools were deeper and the banks steeper. But most of the walking was not too bad.











Above - Ttoite Creek junction is at the end of this reach





Above - Rapids near Tootie Creek



Abve - Lookimg downstream



Above - Views from the climb out up the T3 Track







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