Road Trip Day 4

[den]

April 2

Morning: Mt Field National Park, rainforests and waterfalls
Afternoon: Visiting tatterdemalion, tea, laughing a lot, and not wanting to leave
Evening: Dinner with the rellies, chicken and talk.

Please excuse the large number of forest photos. It's been a long time since I've seen so much green vegetation. The forests around home are mostly open woodland with a little dry sclerophyll forest on the hills. Today I headed up to the Mt Field National Park to do the short hike up to Russell Falls. The day was grey and rainy, and I am loving my Canon digital to death, and the image stabilizing lens lets me take hand-held photos in places I'd normally need a tripod.

I arrived at Mount Field NP fairly early, but not early enough to beat a coach load of grumpy tourists. "It's cold! It's raining! I'm wet. The forest is too dark. It's too far! EW!" So I waited for a few minutes and found a little Tasmanian pademelon* to photograph.



When I'd judged the coach load had reached the falls, complained and left, I headed into the forest.





I proceeded along the path, taking my time and soaking in the colour, silence and damp, while the noise of the falls gradually increased. And then I was there.





I stood there for at least half an hour, just watching the water and listening to the sounds it made in the forest. Then I followed the path across the creek and to the top of the falls, which has a great view of the national park.



And then on to Horseshoe Falls, which technically is the very highest cascade of Russell Falls.



I proceeded back to the information cetre for a nice long lunch and coffee, and then on to Hobart for a happy afternoon with tatterdemalion. And then it was on to Huonville to have dinner with Aunty Jenny, and to meet cousins I haven't seen for 10 years.

Back to the room above the cafe at 12pm.



*A very small species of wallaby.

Comments

[beki.livejournal.com]

That's some mighty pretty territory. Does it happen to be a bit of rain forest? I know there is a helluva drought there, but it reminds me a lot of the rain forest on the other side of Mt Ranier.

[dewhitton.livejournal.com]

It's all rainforest.

[guruwench.livejournal.com]

Absolutely gorgeous shots - and what a pretty little fella you found! (The pademelon)

[hedgegoth.livejournal.com]

You need to get over here mate, I'll take you to the mountains.

Ok, they're teeny tiny mountains but they have charm.

[bunyip.livejournal.com]

Great shots, mate.

I love Russell Falls :D

[weyrdbird.livejournal.com]

Gorgeous!

And the pandemelon looks very melonish (round)! :D

[jenny_evergreen]

Hee. These pics, for me, just scream "Australia: Totally Different!"
Like evolution was on something; something fun and very odd.
I swear, every other continent seems to make instant sense, even when they're different from each other, but Oz is...Oz.

[dewhitton.livejournal.com]

(looks at photos) no, don't see anything odd in there.

[jenny_evergreen]

From your point of view, everyplace ELSE would be odd. *grin*

[tatterdemalion.livejournal.com]

and you didn't come back again 8-(

You better not leave it another 10 years bucko!!

[dewhitton.livejournal.com]

It will be a lot less than 10 years. Promise

Goodmorning from timberlakes

[sparker18.livejournal.com]

Hi den looks like you had a nice time in tasmania love the photos your camera is a great thing to have. big hugs susan and stan