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We squeezed in 2 day-walks and 2 short walks between presentations in Melbourne and Hobart.
Amidst the Swamp Gums ... |
... Euc. regnans, very tall ... |
... rainforest-like, buttressed ... |
... and be-mossed |
With garden gnomes, well, pademelons ... |
... so-called because they're melons with feet |
Dicksonia antarctica |
Russell Falls |
Why they called them man-ferns |
Horseshoe Falls |
Always offer to take a photo ... |
... for the nice couple who are there at the same time |
This is the best of the three day-walks within the Park. Here's someone else's notes and map. He says "15.3 kms and 582 metres". Another source erroneously (and somewhat dangerously) said 12.3km. In the very wet, very windy, and 100m-visibility conditions we had, my estimate was 600m and 18km. A great walk, even so.
Knights who say 'Yi!', on the Urquhart Track ... |
... just above Lake Dobson |
Trunks, low-altitude but which Euc.? |
Trunks, high-altitude Euc. coccifera ... |
... aka Snow Gum in Tasmania only |
Richea pandanifolia, with a 'view' |
The Shelf, and 300m drop to Lake Seal |
E. coccifera, at 1200m, amidst tarns |
Windswept, wet, low vegetation |
With emergent autumn colours |
Brief respite, in the lee of a low-lying tarn |
Lunch in the Lake Newdegate hut |
Why they're called 'coccifera'/cochineal |
Twilight Tarn, latish afternoon |
Unintended Impressionism |
An easy part of the track |
A good unsealed road leads out to two of the dams that enabled the flooding
of the original Lake Pedder.
Mt Eliza is a shorter walk and somewhat lower than Mt Ann behind it. About
750m to the hut or 950m to Mt Eliza itself, but a very direct walk, and hence
relatively short and a little lung-and-leg-bursting.
Starting out |
The first leg is the hill on the right |
First view back ... |
... over the (enlarged) Lake Pedder |
Driving on up the very direct path |
Nearing the top of the first leg |
On the second leg, with Button-Grass |
The best third of the panorama |
View from the hut, 200m below the peak, 100m below the cloud |
Another 25km West, showing some of the Arthurs |
A short walk on the peak above Hobart.
South-east over peninsulas and islands |
Amidst dolerite boulders |
With an effortlessly soaring ... |
Wedgetailed Eagle for company |
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Created: 15 March 2015; Last Amended: 16 March 2015