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Chasing the Rainbow

// April 27th, 2009 // Thirsty Traveler

Had an overnight trip in lower Blue Mountains where the beautiful Fish River runs through it.Weather was coldest during all my stay in Australia at the nightime temperature reached O and in the daytime became no more than 10 degrees.Rain, strong winds and the hailstorm were changing each other from time to time, even though I had a good time fishing and hiking along the Fish River about 20km in two days.Heaps of hook offs but also caught some rainbows few bigger ones few little ones on a dry fly or nymph casting upstream and using indicator.

Morning in Sydney looked good and the sky was clear as possible

 

                                                               Clouds were heavy over my train stopping destination – Tarana Village which has maybe five living houses and a good pub :)

 Mine direction is the left one to the Fish River and Flat Rock Reserve

     

                                                     View on the way to Flat Rock reserve

Fish River Valley

   

Nice aussie couple gave me a lift to my camping place and offer those Anzac biscuits made from coconut, mmmmm….that was delicious :) 

Shoal of the Fish River

  

                                                            Rainbow who took  dry Elk Hair Caddis fly (my favourite one in Verkne river for graylings :) ) 

Just stream…

   

                                                                              Rocky bank

Huge rocks are all over the place                                   

  

                                                                             River view

Here its me  ”So damn cold this weekend”

  

A lot of stones in a deeper part of the river

    

                                                      Time to relax from carrying a rucksack

Bones of dead kangaroos ( I think…)

   

                                                         Echhh….an amazing stream isnt it

Another shallow water

   

                                                               Kind of aboriginal shrine above

  

Shrubs with the thorns like these grows all along the river (tore my pants into them so better not to wear expensive waders I think :) )

   

                                                Another rainbow using upstream nymphing

Banks are ideally for fly casting

  

                                                         Somebody didnt like the sign

Rain over the river

   

                                                        Some animal cave under the tree

A spot where I had few attacts on my Wolly Bugger, just didnt manage to hook up

   

                                            Going back on the main road across the hills

Some huge warm and its burrow

  

                                                                      Dead kangaroo

Hailstorm over the Mount Tarana

  

                                                                             Chasing the rainbow

  

                      Upper part of the Fish River next to the gold mining farm

Waiting for a train back home

  

                                                                           The railway