It looks pretty amazing and wild and savage... even with rough bike paths, wooden pontoons, osprey platforms and picnic benches the wilderness couldn't help but overtake us. Ticks fell from trees, red headed lizards and click beetles roamed free and tree roots stumped our bike plans. It got over-hot, the river water was disconcertingly luke-warm and the girls just wanted to potter not trek.
There were some moments of shade and awesome entomology instruction in the lee of a fossil cliff but after that - the dream was of ice cream and civilisation.
