Glenrock Lagoo(n) with Katie Woo!
Kate and I made the trip out to Glenrock Lagoon in the afternoon.
It is a massive journey, across mountains, over rivers wide, through great plains and past vast plateaus. We would see sunrises and sunsets, the World changing before us. And it would move along without us too. Times would change while we made the massive pilgrimage to the green land. Okay, so this is a slight exaggeration. We arrived in twenty-odd minutes.
Just how I remember it basically. It has been a while since I’ve taken a trip out there for a walk - and last time getting lost - but I was glad to see that the forest remained largely unchanged and untouched. We didn’t have much time before the Sun went down to explore, so I took us along the Flaggy Creek walk and out past the falls.
The journey begins at the carpark and the huge suspended walkway that takes you curling into the thick forest…
Big red gums and luscious greens lining the pathways.
The Sun making an appearance through the trees. Already it was starting to get cold. We couldn’t spend too much time walking towards the beach as once that Sun disappears behind the hills, there’s very little light to see you back to the carpark. The forest is incredibly dark by about 5pm now and I definitely didn’t want to leave it that late to make a move.
We reached Flaggy Creek in good time. There was a lot of rain on Friday, so luckily we got to see a good flow through the falls. The first stop at the little catchment saw plenty of water running quickly down the rock steps. Loads of bright green moss on the rocks too.
The falls, a decent amount of water running through them, were our next stop. I’ve seen them running heavier than they were on Saturday, but after much more rain. We only had a days rain to fuel the falls this time around.
The pre-falls too, before you reach the main falls were running strong.
And I convinced Kate to confront her fear of heights and sit on the edge for our next photos. After much screaming and plenty of disagreement, she finally took up a spot on the edge while I walked as far as I could to the cliff and snapped some more shots with the falls in the foreground.
After that, we made a quick walk back to the car and took a drive into town to see the sun set at Nobby’s Lighthouse.
All in all, a fantastic day.
miniminor said,
May 20, 2007 @ 9:29 pm
Sweet pics matey !
That place looks awesome !
God i thought Kate was going to jump when i first saw that pic !
becca3003 said,
May 21, 2007 @ 8:28 pm
Great pics like always Scotty!
Really like the waterfall ones! 
Wish we had places like that near me to go visit! Only have a few woods but they’re nothing exciting! 
Kate said,
May 21, 2007 @ 8:52 pm
I am so scared of heights. You were very lucky to even get that photo. We best not tell everyone that it took me a good 10 minutes before I finally managed to get THAT close to the edge. The fact that you were even closer to the edge to take that photo didn’t impress me at all.
Preferably on an overcast afternoon to achieve same lighting. And he also approved my studio lighting (after a bit of hmning and ahhing) and my compositioning, although suggested I do a bit more tweaking. Good eh?!
Fantastic day…as the days always are when spent with you my love
Good news…Roger approved the pictures. Have a new idea for my assignment and I think this one will be better and easier. It will require another adventure to Glenrock
xxxx
ScottyB said,
May 21, 2007 @ 8:53 pm
MM.. thanks! Yeah its pretty wicked.. can take a good few hours to explore it all if you really want to get your feet dirty. Beautiful place!
haha, don’t worry, there was no ‘jumping’ on the cards - I never thought she’d make it as far to the edge as she did - let alone jump off!
Bec, ta! You’d have to have somewhere like it in the UK though surely?! Maybe you could organise a day trip for the MINI crew or something.. or even a weekender away in Europe to somewhere similar?
Its a great place here - and so close!
ScottyB said,
May 21, 2007 @ 9:11 pm
Kate, I noticed! haha..
When you screamed I seriously nearly fell over the edge! haha.. did a serious about-turn I tell ya…
Glad it went well for your assignment, good news! And you know me - always up for another trip out to the Glenrock
x
vanwall said,
May 22, 2007 @ 11:20 am
My god, ScottyB, those are awesome piccies! It looks so beautiful.