Cania Gorge

Our holiday was officially a washout! We headed to an inland area where it never ever rains, until we turn up for our summer holiday and it chucks it down! We were in a cabin(shed with a bed!) on a caravan site in the middle of nowhere, the nearest town, Monto, was dead with one not very nice cafe. Basically there was nothing to do in the rain as our planned activities where walking, four wheel driving and wildlife watching. Even the four wheel drives said "dry weather only", so we were a bit stumped. As the cabin wasn't very nice, spending 15 hours inside it with heavy rain proved too much and we decided to cut our holiday short and come home!

A scene from a wet Cania Gorge.


Emergency waterproofs were brought into action with a dripping Cath at Dripping Rock.


We managed a walk to one of the sights, called Overhang Rock.




There were some highlights Bettongs and bottle trees! At our camp site there was nightly bird feeding, so we trotted along and fed the rainbow lorikeets which have very sharp claws and beaks as Neil found out as one decided his flesh was more tasty than the seed! After all the lorikeets had gone and after it had gone dark, little furry creatures called Rufous Bettongs come out and clear up the seed, they are small marsupials just over a foot tall. It's quite unusual to see them so it was great just to sit and watch them close up.


Another thing we looked for where the bottle trees, which unfortunately were down a red dirt road with a sign saying "dry weather only", so we were limited to spying a few from a tarmac road nearby. Here is a snap, it was the best the light could offer.