Tasmania by Chance

Because it was so great Ive been putting off the Tazzie post for some time (try a year), and really all I can say is that we will be back. Beaut place, We stayed away from the tourists and sought out the wild places. Loooooved it!!!



For some strange reason all the pics are lined up backwards, and there are too many to resort. Duzzent maddar...



Rock pool wanderings at Rocky Cape and empty Spirit on return leg just before Xmas.

Old tracks in the forets above Tullah and big waterfalls at every turn.

Postcard stuff. I had these Falls on my wall as a poster for years. Was great to sit in the damp bush and watch and listen and feel it for real.

Thylacines were about somewhere, somewhence. Carvings in Huon at Derwent Bridge and Thy', our travel companion looking for relatives over the Franklin.

We caught a taste for Federation Chocolate with a ale as were watched the forests darken in the evening. Bypassed the Lake St Clair area due to the trendiod tourists.

Lost myself on the Styx, down near where the protests slowed the clearing in the 90's. Be thankful people there are strong willed folk like them. Stop the old-growth clearing. Once it is gone, it doesnt come back.

Always on the lookout for strange paw prints in the deep quiet places. And we often stumbled onto the bizare and the beautiful.

We have sat at the cave tree and disolved into the greenery.

Cape Pillar walk and climb (Track ends 50 metres.... no joke). And forgotten ruins at Gwandalon. It is a Port Arthur without the crowds. Reading the thumb prints in the bricks.

Logging Coupe at the edge of the South West wilderness. Those grey-topped trees are 70+ metre tall ancients ! The lines of leftover timber are piled ready for burning. It doesnt come back people !

Down into Bathurst Harbour, far south west. Wild wild country and fantastic. Deny King stories, white quartz shorelines, buttongrass and Cellery Top pines. I will be walking back in next visit!

I can still hear the clatter of the white quartz shores and hope that I never loose that heady feeling of breathing that crisp, fresh wind blowing over the harbour and racing up the slopes.

A tannin stained cove, without a trace of plastic. It made a nice change.

Suspended lakes in the Ironbounds. Yeah!

The spikey bridge and massive old bridges in the rainforest gullies. The panno did alright.

Do not feed the tigers! They prefer wallabies to jelly babies.

Wineglass, Swansea and Freycinet. Alright, but our hearts were left way above the Bay of Fires

Hows the serenity?. Appologies for leaving the footprints.

Wheres wally?

Noone but a Sooty Oystercatcher

Mole Creek and surrounds. Great Pub and a top T.shirt!

Because of the mix-up these are the first in the series. We made the Spirit of Taz by a minute. Thanks to RACV.!

HD and me took some long-service hol time to get ourselves off the mainland and trek the apple isle for a few weeks. # and a bit weeks is no where near long enough. Give yourself 6..... weeks, months or years, you are unlikley to take it all in. We talked to people doing it in under 5 days. (round tour of rest rooms, Macdonalds and petrol stations).

We could have spent 3 weeks on the top eastern quarter and another down the bottom. and again up the bottom-west etc etc.....

We will be back....

P.S; Tasmanians love a panno! ;)