Jan 31 2010
Canyoning through rose coloured glasses.
Australia day 26th of January 2010.
Just a short report for the moment with some pics. I’ll explain bit more later.
Went up for a quick look at Rosewood creek canyon. The creek runs off Dorrigo plateau and drops about 400m in a 2 km. For the section we ran it was mostly walking/jumping the drops with two large abseils of about 50-60m each. Some nice gorge sections and some great jumps. Beautiful spot and was unbelievably warm!! I get really cold normally but I spent most of the day in just shorts and thermals. Canyoning doesn’t get much better.
Enjoy the pics!!
Stephen
Looks amazing man, great photos. Would have loved to have been there.
Awesome, are any of the sections paddleable…a boogie board might be fun.
There were a few smaller rapids that are paddleable. The waterfall in the 4th and 5th pics is also a nice clean drop. Everything else had rocks in bad places. With more water a river board would be fun in some places. The section below where we got out is the section i’m interested in to paddle.
Gday mate,
I have actually paddled the Rosewood. I know Crrky has written it up, but I belive that myself (and teh crew with me) were the first (only?) ones to have run it.
We put in off Never Never just below the BIG waterfall, and pulled out at the confluence of Rosewood and Bellenger.
Awesome river, the more water the better (sort of). The Ghost Gums were almost as cool as the rapids!
Hey Chris,
Wow. Any pics? I’m super keen to run it sometime mainly cause of where it is, if the river’s good as well that’s a bonus. Just awesome to paddle off the plateau into the valley. I have many questions about the run if you’re able to answer any that would be great. Did you just walk in to cedar falls and lower down from there? Did you do it when it was flooding? Was it drop pool or pretty continuous? I can probably think of a few more which i’ll email if i do!