Sef and I went for a walk to get some lunch. I had some leftover curry from Firday night so we took that and headed South-West through Cunninghams Gap and past Aratula down Emu Creek Road into Main Range National Park.

From here we basically walked North-East towards the bottom of one of the Steamers, (The four outcrops are said to resemble the prow, funnel, mast and stern of a steamship. I can't remember which is which). We must have started on the most southern of these and climbed up to the saddle between it and the next one. This was a small boulder field maybe 10 feet across. Our final destination was the far Northern end of the 4 outcrops so we walked along the Southern base of these cliffs for a couple of hours.


Occasionally we would spot a bird in a tree (we could hear millions but very rarely did they sit still within range of the telephoto. Sef has said that he will look this one up in his bird book and let me know what it is.


There were a couple of decent sized caves too which were significantly cooler than walking in the sun.


For some reason there was very little breeze as we actually walked along by these cliffs but once we got to each of the saddles it was very gusty. Once we had reached our second waypoint we climbed up to the top of the 'stern' of the Steamers 'ship'. We walked along the top of this ridge as it got narrower and narrower before it was only a few meters across too. Eventually we got to the end of that single piece and to continue to the end we had to do a basic climb up some step-like rocks which wasn't too bad if you didn't worry about having significant drops on either side of you. The view from this point was pretty average and after walking for 3 hours to get here it would be silly to give up 10 seconds from the target.


So we climbed up the rocks and walk was definitely worth every second once we ascended onto the very end of one of the narrow ridges. It was a few meters wide at the end where we sat and had a spicy chicken tikka masala looking over the Steamers.


The polarising filter is fantastic, (it reduces glare, enhances saturation, and increases contrast), and an example pic which has the polarising filter over half of it is available here. The wide angle lens was brilliant too, but we had an annoying habit of getting our own feet in photos we were taking as it was so incredibly wide. After taking a bunch of photos and enjoying the beautiful view for an hour or so we headed back along a slightly different route (via a creek and a bit of rainforest) to the car and arrived to our starting point by 3:30pm.

Enjoy!
Maz