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As we walked to the falls we saw lots of cheeky blue wrens on the path. Of course, the moment the camera was ready, they left... |
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Some steep rockfaces from the path |
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A small sheer rockface. |
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Another wren shot. |
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The path moved into a deep gorge. |
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All over the hills were yakkas. |
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The Morialta falls. |
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The waterfall had a nice rainbows formed in the spray. |
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The classic meta-photo, me taking a picture of grandma taking a picture of the falls. |
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A closer picture of the falls. |
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Looking up the falls you can see a yakka that prefered to grow horizonatally. |
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A nice deliniated yakka(xanthorrhoea quadrangulata). |
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A shot from the path climbing to the lookout. |
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Astroloma conostephioides, or firey heath, covered this upper slopes of the adelaide hills. |
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Mistletoe(in this case, probably amyema pendulosa) is a parasitic plant that draws its sustenence from the host plant(in this case a eucalypt). |
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A shot of the city from the lookout. |
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A nicer composed, but poorer quality picture from higher up the path. |
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arty farty shot from the top. |
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Looking down the valley you got an idea of the size of the gorge(but pictures never give the same impression). |
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Here is the bird that says "Ni!" |
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The view from the lookout. |
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A picture of the falls from the lookout. |
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Here you can see the first two sets of falls. |
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Once I had made the big plod down again, I tried taking pictures of butterflys. This is the best I managed. |
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Grandma looking worried about the missing schoool kid. |