Cutting a corner …

….. ….. ….. walking back down the Arrow River, along the Macetown Road today. It’s a scruffy narrow & dodgy little track alongside the river so we walked thru the river just there.
We’d walked a fair way up (and down and up again), 9 kms altogether. It’s fairly shady for the first half, with a few beautiful native beeches, but after that we were in the full sizzling sun. We’d also walked the first two bends of the New Chums Ridge Track, which I’m hoping to walk sometime soon. There weren’t many people around, but we had gone further up the gorge this time.
I found a tiny Copper Boulder moth which I’ll put in Extras - it’s beautiful; about the size of my thumbnail. It was resting on a tutu plant, native to New Zealand, which is used medicinally although it’s also known to be poisonous.