The start of the walk is a set of stairs carved out of the stone walls of the canyon. It’s called heart attack hill and when you stand at the bottom at look up you can see why. It appears to be an almost vertical set of stairs. You are only allowed to go one way. You must complete this most challenging part of the walk at the beginning.
For today we chose to walk along the creek bed of Kings Creek. It’s an easy walk and climbs a little to a lookout platform where you are surrounded by the canyon walls.
First thing this morning Colin set off alone to do the rim walk. I decided not to do it. I didn’t like the look of the steps at the beginning. It is very steep and there is nothing to hang on to. I did a little practice on them yesterday and felt that as it got higher it would be scary.
Colin returned about 2 hours later from the rim walk. He thoroughly enjoyed the walk, was exhausted after the initial climb but after a short rest was ready for the remainder of the walk. He took lots of photos.
After the rim walk we went and did a couple of other walks in the area. We went to Kathleen Springs. That was a lovely easy walk and finishes up at a very picturesque waterhole. The inky black water reflects the white gum trees and surrounding deep orange domes of the canyon.
After the recent rain the wildflowers have begun to bloom and along this walk there were many pretty flowering shrubs and bushes. Also around the waterhole there were several clusters of ferns, not something I expected to see out here.