Leven Canyon Floor

Last Friday I paid a visit to Leven Canyon. I've posted pictures before which were taken from the lookout. You can see them here. If you drive about another 1 kilometre down from the lookout turn off, there is a track that takes you down to the bottom of the canyon. It's a relatively short walk. The canyon is much smaller at this point but it's still quite a steep walk for the unfit (me). There is a bridge at the bottom which gives you a great view of the river. I'll have to return the next time we get some heavy rain as it would be quite spectacular in flood.

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#1 - View from the start of the walk

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#5 - Looking straight down from the bridge

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Leven Canyon

The Leven River has it's source in the Black Bluff Range over a thousand metres above sea level and flows out into Bass Strait at Ulverstone on the north coast - a journey of 102 km's. For part of that course it has cut it's way through the the surrounding rock to form an impressive canyon.

At the end of the Leven Canyon Road there is a picnic area and a walking track to a lookout. From here you can look down to the raging rapids 250m below. To the south-west you can also see Black Bluff (1339m) which as of last Saturday still had some large drifts of snow. I imagine it would have much more snow now given last nights snowfalls down to 600m.

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Leven Canyon

Leven Canyon

As you look down to the river you can only imagine what it must be like down there among the boulders, waterfalls, and rapids but of course not everyone is willing to leave it to their imagination. Have a look at this video I found on YouTube.

Video from GoBoatingAus

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