Windin Falls

Wednesday 12th June 2002. WINDIN FALLS.  Features: spectacular waterfall, rainforest, view and swimming (for the brave). Leave: 7.30am, Atherton; 8.15am Butcher’s Creek.  Standard requirements, coat. Grade is easy/moderate.  Length is long, 10-12km.  Duration: all day.  Climb: undulating.  Track type: old forestry roads.  Contact Kathy KILPATRICK on 4095 4536.

Kathy and Steve Kilpatrick, Noel, Phil Murray, Brian, Trish Veivers, Pat Gillespie?, Marie from Butcher's Creek [pipe band], Marie from Tolga [touch football],

This was a nice walk in from past Lamin's Hill along an old forestry road. The valleys overlooked were deep and rugged. There was a nice swimming hole upstream from the falls - reached from an alternate descent from the end of the road where there was an old picnic table.

 Marie, Steve Kilpatrick, Brian, Kathy, Marie - Bluey boiling up in background. The falls descend a long way from here into the upper Mulgrave area.

Lunch at Windin Falls. Noel Brooks and Phil Murray mid-stream above the falls.

Jungletop

Wednesday 29th May 2002. 'Jungletop' on the Great Divide Tolga. Features: Spectacular views, unique rainforest. Fitness a must. Leave 8.00 am Post Office Tolga. Standard requirements - 3 litres water. Grade is moderate/hard. Length is medium, 8-10 km. Duration: all day. Track type: cross country, extended ascent/descent. Contact Kathy Kilpatrick on 4095 4536

We climbed up the dip on the southern end of Mt Emerald then south along the top which had been burnt. We came to a patch of rainforest up on top which had been logged for a short time but found to be too inaccessible. It was heavily disturbed by pigs. We had lunch near some foxholes dating from WW2 training then descended a steep hill to farmland at the end of the Bones Knob road where Bluey met us with a billy of tea and biscuits.

Emerald Creek Falls

Emerald Creek Falls One & Two  Wednesday 1^st May 2002

Led by Noel Brooks, we left Mareeba at 7.30 am. We climbed up above the falls, initially in the creek then up on the western side, until we came to the next falls, where we had a swim and smoko.

the falls – there is a narrow gorge

Noel Brooks, above the falls, soon after lunch, when things started getting difficult, on the way down.

Was this the one where we got light showers coming across to make it slippery?

Easter 2002 at Cobbold Gorge

This was our first camping trip with the club and we set up our camper next to Colin and Jean Wilson, the leaders. It was nice to find that their style of camping was similar to ours.
On Saturday we walked up the river which had only a few weeks earlier been 12 feet up in flood, then into Agate creek, collecting odd red rocks on the way.
We then headed a bit north to some cliffs for smoko and into some gullies. We were accompanied by a ranger from the park who was interested to see if he could make some walks for tourists.
I particularly liked a blind gully with some posts and rails at the end for mustering livestock.
We then climbed up and walked along a rocky ridge above Cobbold Gorge.
Next day we went up the gorge on a boat.

Jean Muriel Falls

This was a 12km Sunday jungle walk with Colin and Jean Wilson, after whom Colin named the falls. Also Norms Falls. This may have been our first walk in our new Blundstone boots from TGT in Mareeba.
We started on the Maalan Road east of Ravenshoe, crossed a paddock and into rainforest, marked by Colin with his distinctive black and white tape.

I remember Buckinghamia celsissima flowering above the rainforest canopy in this area south of Ravenshoe.

Fishery Falls

Wednesday 22 August , 2001. This walk was led by Bluey. We climbed up the rocks in the creek above the water intake. It all got a bit dangerous. Bob Lewis and Marie pulled out. Others on this walk included, Sue, Noel and I, Noel's niece Linda from Gordonvale, the weather man and his daughter, Trish Vievers, Pat Gillespie, Karen?, Sue's friends from New Zealand, Kevin Hayes, the pilot guy.

 

The photos below were taken by Kevin Hayes with his digital camera and downloaded from his website.

Bluey

unknown, Sally, Linda

Pat Gillespie, Sally, Bluey

The water intake

Zig Zag track from Topaz

Wednesday 11th July 2001. Towalla Pocket and Zig Zag Track, TOPAZ. Features: views, goldmining, historic rainforest track. Leave: 7.00 am. Standard requiremens, high gaiters, leech repellent. Grade is moderate. Length is long, 15 km. Duration: all day. Track type: foot track and cross country. Contact Ian HALLS on 40937490.

Despite the early start, 6.30 at Sue's, I was keen to do this one. I wore panty hose to protect from leeches. We started at the end of the Topaz Road and walked out toward Broken Nose.

About 12 of us Ian, Noel, Sue, Steve from NZ, Brian, Steve Kilpatrick, Keith Halfpapp [57^th birthday], Jo, Marie [?], Trish Veivers, Pat Gillespie and another plump girl. We started walking at 8.20 and got back to the cars at 4.50. A long day. I ran low on blood sugar before lunch and struggled home, helped with barley sugar and glucose donations, but no leeches got me. It was a good walk. In future I must take high energy food and have a high energy breakfast instead of light healthy food.

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