Verbal Description …. A Journalling Experience of the Creek ... 2001:

….. I am sitting between the upper and lower pools …. The upper pool is a still pool with slight ripples on the surface from the incoming water from the rapids on the topside of the pool … there are shadowed shades of water ….. dark green with streaked patches of lighter light-lit water ….. tiny white froth flecks moving gently down on the smooth water surface …… the pool is edged with tall trees 50 metres or so high …… some of them are water gums as in the photographs below.

…. There are various assorted rainforest trees with small subdivided dark leaves in loose clumps on the edge of stretching thin branches …… trees overhang the pool now ….. in past years it was more open and sunny …… A Bangalow Palm to 3.00 metres high grows upwards as dark green graceful palm fronds from beyond the boulder

On the right hand side is a bouldery slope of small boulders ….. 200 – 300 mm in diameter ….. the boulders are mainly 100 mm in size and traverse down the slope ….. some of the boulders are covered in pads of moist green moss ….. exposed 100 mm tree roots mingle with the boulders …… a large 600 mm rainforest tree butt ends the sloped shoulder.

Through the creek bush comes repeated bird sounds (currawongs) the sounds cascade down among the forest trees …… bird sounds, the gentle sounds of moving water and the soft sounds of moving leaves in the occasional breeze interweave together through the rich greenness.

The upper end of the pool is backed by a watergum forest in trim 100 - 200 mm cream – fawn smooth trunks …. Often in multiples of two or three trunks arising next to each other ….. occasional trunks marked out in smooth cream bark but other trunks in darker bark …… lomandra sedges in dark green blades …. Tussocky at the base near the waters edge ….. soft filtered light alights on the dark green leaves alternatively with dark then light green leaves.

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