Yeppoon

Just a note to everyone that I have already written a guest post about the creek at Kemp Beach over at Yeppoon Chronicle. If you want to know how to get to the creek, or see more photos, just head over to my post there.

Last Saturday I went with my family to Kemp Beach, because we wanted to explore the creek there, especially after the recent rain. I was a bit disappointed, because it was only flowing under the footpath at it’s usual slow rate. However when we walked up a bit I discovered that it mostly goes underground near the footpath, but further along it flows freely.

Anyway, just a couple of meters into our exploration I spotted a small snake with a yellow belly and a black top sunning itself. It wasn’t scared at all, because even when I stood on the other side of the stream it just stayed put.

Later on I had a glimpse of another snake, and from what I saw I think it was about 3 times thicker with the same markings as the little snake. Unlike the little one, however, he was definitely no hanging around, so he took off as soon as he saw (or heard) me.

The snake - which I think is a tree snake or a yellow belly.

As we progressed, we found quite a few small waterfalls such as the one above, although that is more like a minature waterfall.

Further up, we came out of the fairly dense tree cover and emerged into the open, where we could see up the rest of the hill.

In one particular spot we found there were heaps of little ferns (I think) growing under a tree.

We kept going up and entered into some more tree cover, where I found some really brightly coloured tendrils that were creeping across the rocks (in some places there was just sold rock that the water ran over).

Eventually, after I’d found some really pretty green moss and caught a glimpse of a much bigger snake with the same markings as the small snake, I reached the top. The above is a view over down the creek, over Kemp Beach and Rosslyn Bay, and in the distance, Yeppoon.

[tags]yeppoon, creek, water, kemp beach, mountain[/tags]