Another Grand Canyon?

Australia has its own Grand Canyon. I hiked it last weekend with some friends, Robert, Sandra, and Connie.

Grand is perhaps too strong a word. I'd call it Deep Canyon - it's very narrow and deep. So much so that my GPS didn't track very well. Here's the Google Map showing the parts where I had a reading:


Here's a warning sign:



Here's a view along the footpath:



The bottom is wonderfully dark and damp. The path goes up and down the side of the canyon, sometimes close to the top and sometimes at the bottom so it's quite a hike. We saw lots of people, most hiking but a few were obviously going to climb down.



The temperature was in the teen's when we were there. The bottom of the canyon would be a good place to spend a hot day but getting in and out would raise your own temperature a lot.

Here's a picture taken looking up from the path:



The guide books call this a half day walk but we did it in a couple of hours. I'd guess it was about 5km. There's a nice view at the north end of the loop shown here. The view from here really is similar to the view from the north rim of the Grand Canyon in the US - one of our favorite places to car camp.

Tim