30 Aug 10 – Manning Gorge

By Craig: A gorge with a difference. We had heard from our camp neighbours that there were several spots where you could jump from rock cliffs. “Can I jump?” asks Sam. “We’ll see when we get there”, I say as I look at Louise with a hope-he’ll-forget glint in my eye.







The walk started with a river crossing in a tinny tethered to each side and able to be pulled across each way with a rope. Good fun, says Sam.











It was a good 3km hike across all sorts of terrain and in some places I was glad to see a white arrow or two painted on rocks (graffiti the modern day bread crumbs).



































So we arrive and the first thing Sam says is ‘Can I jump, dad?’ Well a good father wouldn’t let his son do something he hadn’t tested first, so we both jumped. Well I jumped twice and Sam just kept jumping. It was only 2.5 to 3 meters high but when you were up there it looked a long way down, but it was lots of fun.