4th April 2018
Today was a 22 km out and back run/walk from Pierces car park through the Grose Valley and up the Western side of the Valley to Victoria Lookout. A little jogging mostly walking. Within a kilometre of starting down Pierces I almost stood on a Euastacus Sustralasiensis (Sydney Smooth Crayfish), by the time I had the camera out and ready to shoot, it had disappeared down it's burrow below one of the split logs that made the steps of the path.
The only human contact for this run was a couple of day tourists near the turn around point and a over night camper near the start when I was almost back to the ute.
My GPS recorded over 2 km of vertical ascent, I do think this figure is way to high. IE GPS error.
The weather was ideal mostly sunny.
The lowest point of the run, the Grose river crossing
My second sighting of a Euastacus Sustralasiensis in a tributary of the Grose
Victoria Falls
Gorgeous. What is the Eustasrus .....? . Is it a crayfish. The Gross River is beautiful ..i wish I was there looks amazing Helen
ReplyDeleteHelen, Its common name is the Sydney Smooth Crayfish.
DeleteWatch out for the Bunyip !
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