Carew Creek Canyon, Lake Brunner

After a successful saturday's canyoning, we headed to the west coast for a bit of Granite Canyon action.

Embracing the west coast bush

We got a little lost on the first try to get to the top of the canyon, heading a bit too far away from the watercourse. It was pretty steep; basically we were climbing on the roots of little trees. It was just a little ridiculous so we retraced the steps and made it to the top without further problems.

Grant on R1

The canyon was a stellar granite chute, with back to back waterfalls, deep pools and carved granite bowls. There wasn't too much water on our trip, but I'm sure it could get pretty sporting pretty quickly.

R1 30m

Grant and Chucky chilling out.

The canyon was guided previously and had hangarless bolts stations allready in place. The bolts seemed to be in Ok shape. A few had obviously been hit by rocks, but all the bare bolts took nuts and hangars.

Grant on R2

R2

We left the rope in on R3 and did laps of the drop. You could either jump from 5m or 9m ledges or do a 8m near vertical slide!

Brendon shows his style with a superman slide

And then decides to abort halfway down...

Little downscramble/mini slide to get to the last drop

Brendon starting down Carew Falls

Chucky on Carew Falls

Goofing around at the bottom.

The last drop was beautiful and ended at a nice plunge pool where we could jump, slide and goof around in before heading home.