Our overnight hike.
We only stayed for one night, from Saturday through till Sunday morning, because Geoff (my boyfriend) had to leave again for townsville Sunday afternoon.
The trip was absolutely breath-taking, just glorious to say the least. We made our own track following the river to Peetes Falls (Gordonvale Cairns QLD) as we had lost the original track to wait-a-while! So we then decided to hop from rock to rock till we found the existing track again! Ironicly we didnt find the track till our venture back!!!
On our way up we come across a massive water dragon, and countless amounts of colourful native birds, butterflies.. And the nasty march flies! Suprisingly enough the mosquitos were spas. It was great. I was sure the humidity was off the beurometer, a figure about 110% perhaps!
I felt as though i was taking the form of the river, i was melting, beading sweat just running off me as though id just come from beneath the waterfalls! This was no deterant however, every aspect of hiking and being part of nature is my ultimate adventure. And Geoff, he is just so wonderful! Stopping me every so often, to rehydrate me, asking me to drink from his camelbak once mine was emptied! Such a sweetie!
Half way up the falls was a gorgeous little spot, Geoff and I were sooo hot from climbing we stopped for a swim break, a few munchies and a drop to drink. The water was prestine, like glass, mirroring what little tweaking light reflection there was through the dense canopy, and crystal clear, any slight movment on the bottom was not to go un-noticed! I doubt i could think of a single word to explane just how spectacular this rainforest was!
Throughout the whole hike we could hear the humming of the cicada's and the lulling tunes of the native birds.
As we near the first of the two largest falls, the flora begun to change, transforming into what was dark dense rainforest, to a much more grassy bushland, much more open space, and the pools of water were substancially larger than the rest, rock faces were climbing for stories and holding intense heat.
As we pushed on up toward the last fall, we had a cirtain sense of accomplishment, with a massive hug and kiss, and a quiet pat on the back. We then looked over our shoulders, and there stood Peetes falls, the most majestic prestiegious of falls on the hike. Glorious to say the least.
We ventured out to the waters edge and with no hesitation dropped our packs, stripped ourselves of our clothes and jumped right in and the falls welcomed us with refreshing cool water and a cool summer breeze! The sound of the falls was amazing. The sound we'd been waiting to hear, the deep rumbling sound we could hear from the beginning of our journey, was right before us. This was heaven on earth!
After our refreshing dip, we soon collected our gear and quickly set up camp. As Geoff is the soldier he taught me his way. And as I do with all new information, I put it to practise! And within the hour we had our cosy little camp set up for the night. So we set off to find ourselves some firewood and get some water on the boil to replenish our canteens.
We spent about 3 hours after that, trying to capture yabbies with a snare. Oh the tourment! It was the most tedious little exercise i think i have ever set out on! In those three hours, Geoff caught ONE yabby. JUST ONE! I caught nothing I gave up after about 2 hours, with a little less determination than Geoff, I cut it away slinging myself in my hammok for a while!
We greeted the evening with our glorious little fire, and sat back and relaxed for an hour or so soaking up the natures buzzing atmosphere! Toward 2100 we decided that we should get some dinner on the go. We endulged ourselves in Mi-Goreng noodles in our cupscanteen! Very satisfied we had to end the night with some roasted marshmellows and a goodnights kiss! All too soon it broke dawn, and at first light we were packed up and bid the rainforest goodbye and we were on our venture back home.
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