Sunday 5 February 2017

Wednesday 25 January 2017 - Midweek Walk

Leader: John Hutton
Report by: Jan Werder

Two Geehi members, plus one visitor, departed Cooma at 8.30am for the midweek walk to Rainbow Lake.   Another Geehi member joined the group at the Rainbow Lake carpark - total of 4 - John, Jan, Jen, Karen.


We started the walk at 10am - a short but very pleasant walk in perfect weather - sunny, blue skies, and a cool breeze.    A few March flies around but they weren't biting!   We followed the path to the lake, waited while John found the geocache (only a 2 minute wait!!), wandered to the edge of the lake taking photos and having morning tea while John tried to find the pipes.   Have they been removed?   There was a rumour going around that they had been removed and there was certainly no sign of them.   There was no wildflower expert with us so Karen has taken photos to send to our resident wildflower expert (Jutta) for id.    More meanderings along the edge of the lake taking lots of photos as the conditions were pretty perfect, before trying to head off up the valley but it wasn't that pleasant over boggy ground and snow grass.   Changing direction, we headed uphill on the other side of the lake to get around some dense bush, and then back down to the track beside the lake.    We had lunch with us but decided to get out of March fly country and head to Parc in Jindabyne for a coffee.    We were back at the car by 1.30pm - a total of about 5 kms.


From NPWS site:  "Rainbow Lake was created in the early 1900s to supply water to what used to be Hotel Kosciuszko.  This delightful slice of Snowy Mountains heritage is also a great spot for fly fishing, so try your luck for trout.   Gang gang cockatoos are just one of the birds which might pop out to greet you while you're there, and be sure to keep your eyes peeled for shy wombats."




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