AAWT - Day 17 - Old Telegraph Poles to Tantangara Creek

This was Christmas Day 2021, a day hike on the AAWT...

Heading down to the Murrumbidgee

Wasn't as hard to cross as I thought it might be

Across the river and heading north

Beautiful walking

The Old Telegraph Poles

This marker is where I made it to last time when I was walking from the North in cold and fog. This time, walking in from the south in sun and wildflowers.

The wildflowers seemed larger than usual - Yam Daisy Microseris lanceolata  

Cicada

Dragonfly

Subalpine Leek orchid Prasophyllum sphacelatum

Divergent lateral sepals - either Prasophyllum 

viriosum (Stocky Leek Orchid)  or P. candida (Kiandra Leek Orchid)

Podolepis daisy

Hamilton's Orb Weaver Araneus hamiltoni

The Jester Thallarcha jocularis

Tantangara Creek

Old Adaminaby

 

The old church at Old Adaminaby

Views around the shore

Some kind of ceramic insulator

Plenty of building remnants

 Plenty of Yabby bits Cherax sp.

Same place, next day

AAWT - Day 16 - Ghost Gully Camp to the old Telegraph Poles

 A day walk in the fog on the June long weekend. 

 Typical view for today- fog and swamps

The old firetrail still shown on some maps has all but disappeared

Track to Millers Hut

Old fenceline near Millers Hut

Bally Creek

Millers Hut, with a patch of snow front and back

Snow Gums Eucalyptus pauciflora

Black Sallees Eucalyptus stellulata

Most of the small groundcover is Leafy Bossiaea Bossiaea foliosa

The first telegraph pole

This way to some fog

Following the poles

The end of the line

At the end of the line of telegraph poles I decided to head back to Ghost Gully Camp. I'd spent a lot of time tooling around looking for old trails, the weather was bad and I was packed for day walking only. Heading back, I drifted away from the telegraph poles and could not see them in the fog, so set the compass for North and headed for Port Philip Trail. At first I was unnerved at having lost the poles, but the walking was so lovely and open that I was soon enjoying myself thoroughly (the song You Can Go Your Own Way was playing in my head). I was also rewarded with subalpine views of the Murrumbidgee that would have been otherwise missed.

Mighty Murrumbidgee