Day 49 Emma Gorge

Today we returned to El Questro to do the walk to Emma Gorge. There were two creek crossings to get to Emma Gorge Resort. A 3.2km grade 5 walk heavily strewn with loose boulders, rocky obstacles, and uneven terrain, giving us our most challenging walk this far mostly of rock hopping and scrambling. Emma Gorge is part of the Cockburn Ranges. A scenic trail with changing vegetation to crystal clear pools and a waterfall. The gorge is characterised by scree slopes and cliff face escarpments reaching up to 120m on both sides of the trail. The bulk of these cliff faces are made up of Cockburn sandstone and large quartz sandstone. The strata remain largely horizontal as they were laid down 1700 million years ago. Ripple patterns on the rocks were created when sediment was deposited under shallow tidal waters millions of years ago. The trail ends abruptly inside a massive, sheer-sided amphitheatre where the 65-metre waterfall drops into the icy plunge pool.



















Now home freshly showered and resting after a big day.