We meet at the Ballpark in Gillies Park at 10:00am.
Last week we had a good day for hiking and decided to head up onto the high ground not knowing for sure if there was fog at higher elevations. It was difficult to know if some of our hiking trails would be passable at this time, not because of possible snow patches which are often on the high ground in February, but because the recent rains meant some smaller creeks might be to deep and wide to cross. We managed to cross several on the first trail, but then were almost forced to turn back by one creek that was both deep and a bit too wide. No one was keen to do that and so rocks and a big chunk of tree trunk were gathered up and a causeway quickly created. Lunch was in a sunny spot on Thompson Rd. and we returned to the vehicles by a different, and drier, route past the Hydro Reactor station.
My photo is one I took when on a hike last month. I don't ever remember seeing such an odd natural mass of the foam that is often seen on our fast flowing creeks. I believe there are organic oils in the water derived from rotting vegetation and these produce a white foam when mixed in fast flowing water in rocky creeks. This circular mass was floating, rotating and trapped in a small pool.
JD.
A curious natural donut floating and rotating in a pool in Mouat Creek. The foam is a natural feature of fast flowing creeks.
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