Tasmania

Ah! Tasmania, cold one day colder the next, but even so a lovely place to visit. Very much like England I've been told. Close to Hobart the Tassie capital is a famous National Park, the Mount Field National Park. Home to giant trees, ferns valleys and waterfalls. This first photo is "Horseshoe Falls"
Nearby is the famous Russell Falls. At night you can see "Glow Worms" around this area, there's lots of Possums, Kangaroos as expected. This area is well worth a few days at to take it all in.
On the way to the Gordon River Dam, is a lovely little walk through a special rainforest valley,Its called the "Creepy Crawly Nature Trail", a great place to spend a hour. No problems walking due to the board walks, although there are 165 steps to tackle.. The rest of the area is designed for fishermen, oh well! Strathgordon is the place to stay, it only rains there 350 days a year, I think that's true having been there!

Cradle Mountain

	Cradle Mountain is a great place to walk, cloudy on only 345 odd days a year, so you need to be prepared for anything at anytime to walk here. Mischa and I had a great day here taking 10 hours to do the round trip, including the peak, rather slow but we took allot of time to take in the delights of the area.This photo is close to the start, featuring Dove Lake, the main lake.it was taken just past suicide rock and after the first climb. A Classic shot, if you look at all the Calenders around.
	While I liked the walk, its not always easy, Mischa is some 10 meters below me and you can see the drop below, that's why there is a chain to hang on to, so you can pull your way up to the top.
	After the first real climb up Hansons Peak you come to the beautiful Twisted Lakes, a good spot for coffee, people often come here to sit then return. It a good 1 hour walk to here.
	Further on you can see way back to the car park at the top of the lake. We took the route to the right of the photo you can see the ridge line is fairly step.
	Huts are provide for shelter when a sudden storm or snow hits the area. This hut is the one near Little Horn, the little peak near the main Cradle mountain peak. In another hut (10 x 10 ft.) we meet around 20 people, it does get busy at times.
	View at the top, well worth it, I felt. Height 1545 meters.
	This is the view from near the top of Cradle Mountain looking south while we were going down from the peak. It was cold for December, notice the snow! Notice also the rocks! This was a fun walk/climb/scramble to get there and back again with our packs on. Some rocks were taller than us and we needed to really work hard to get to the top, going down was not easier than going up.

Winterbrook Falls

A Long way off yet, the wonderful Winterbrook Falls

This was a lovely 6 hour walk to the base of the falls through rich forests and fern valleys. The trail for allot of the way followed an old wooden tram track used by the early Wood chopers to haul timber down to where it could be processed. This made it easy and hard as the track was level but in places quite wet. As usual in Tassie if you leave late in the day for a walk the clouds come in and we saw the waterfall for only a short 10 minutes. Due to this and the need to get out before dark we could not explore fully this lovely area.

Mischa pointing out the way to the Falls

At the base of the Winterbrook Falls, A Loverly polace to explore if you have the time

King Solomon & Marakoopa Caves

Both of these caves located near Mole Creek are wonderful, easy to access and walk through. They are different though as King Soloman is slightly dryer than the Marakoopa cave, so it is worth seeing both. As you can see they are Limestone caves and as such were formed by water seeping through the Limestone which is dissolved and later deposited in the form of stalactites and stalagmites.
	These photo's were taken in 1997, the one above showing 1 of the many formations in King Soloman's Cave. The Pool, which is fairly unique to my mind is in the Marakoopa cave, and is part of a "stream" which flows slowly along and forms curious limestone forms.

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