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Deep River drains into Nornalup Inlet and … wait for it … it’s another great river for a paddle. Are you yawning yet? The deep, tannin-rich colour of this river made it somewhat distinctive from other rivers and this was particularly in evidence with the play of light through a low, slatted wooden bridge that I passed under (first photo shows whole bridge). I was mesmerised by the shafts of light that looked, for all the world, like plates of Perspex fixed and angled in the water (photo 2). I needed to keep ‘touching’ them with my fingers to double check that they were just a shaft of light. The third photo shows the light closest to the bedrock where you can see the deep tannin colour of the water and also a shadow cast by a small leaf on the water’s surface. Quite an extraordinary effect. The final photo is to show that Deep River was also a lovely, well vegetated river, which made for yet another very pleasant paddle.