Triplet Falls: or Two Piccies of the Day

Recently I have posted piccies of the Beauchamp Falls and the Hopetoun Falls.

I said that they were almost literally around the corner from each other (at least in Oz terms all within about 15 kilometres). I noted that there was a third set of falls in the immediate area and promised to complete the triplet of falls in the near future.

Well here is the third of the triplet and this waterfall is actually called the Triplet falls.

As you can see from this piccie the channel breaks into three. To catch all three branches in one piccie is actually really hard.
The waterfall is in quite dense rainforest and is too wide for a conventional camera lens except at an obtuse angle like this.

This second piccie of the day is of the right-hand and widest of the three branches

More falls

The other night I posted a piccie of the Hopetoun falls. Well almost literally round the corner from the Hopetoun falls are two other gorgeous waterfalls.

One of those is the Beauchamp falls. I'll complete the triplet in the next few days

In which Al limps his way along.

I mentioned a while ago that I was beginning to read the second draft of my second novel to Deb. As a creative tool I find this wonderfully useful.

I get to weave my way through the narrative, and really hear the rhythm. Deb is a great listener and gently critical when the plot (or the writing) needs it.

So far we are about 10% through and on the whole Deb likes it. But the downside is she has identified some points where I need to do more to develop the relationship between two characters. So as you can see very helpful!

Now I am going to digress to one of my other favorite topics waterfalls.

Weeks ago I took a trip to the Otway ranges in Western Vic. Unlike the Grampians they are just behind the coast so they are wet, very wet.

I wove my way down through the rainforest in search of the Beauchamp Falls.I caught a few shots of this amazing fungi,And from underneath.Finally I reached the falls. After climbing down these stairs I got this shot from a viewing platform about half way up.Never one to make things easy for myself I decided to leave the formal path and climb down to the river bed to get shots from the base of the falls.

I’m glad I did because I saw this little fellow.He was hunting for insects in a small patch along the river banks.
The shots aren’t great because it was really dark under the forest and he would not sit still.

I have no idea what he is, I have never seen one before. I presume he is quite a local species.

About now I did something very silly and slipped on what appeared to be quite dry and stable rocks.

In saving myself I managed to bash my knee and soak my clothes.

Fortunately, when I am crossing ground that I’m unsure of I carry my camera in a padded bag. So no damage to my camera, I think I would have cried had I broken it.

I limped on upstream to the base of the falls and caught some more shots.The misty look is caused by spray from the falls. When I looked at the rocks I saw why I had fallen. Continuous drifts of moisture from the falls has caused them to grow a slick film of brown algae. What looks like rock is actually as slick as ice.

Kind of content I had the fun of climbing back out of the gorge, then climbing the stairs and finally a mile long walk (or should I say limp) back to the car.

As I said this was weeks ago, and I am all healed up. But it is a good lesson extra care is needed. Good shots are not worth an injury.