Dave Patchett and I headed to the Lower Manorburn dam for some ice skating on July 10th. The ice was a bit thin in some areas, but we found enough to skate on 🙂
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Yours truly (Ryan Hellyer) standing on the hill above Rushcutters bay. The channel is in the background.
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Yours truly on the ice. My arm was in a sling as my shoulder was quite munted due to dislocations.
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Dave Patchett in the gorge
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Dave Patchett checking out the ice in the channel
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View of the channel.
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View of the middle basin. We didn't skate out into the middle here as it was thinning out too much unfortunately.
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View towards the channel
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View of Rushcutters bay from above
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View of the channel, looking toward the bottom basin.