Road Trip Day 4
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Morning: Mt Field National Park, rainforests and waterfalls
Afternoon: Visiting![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
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 withtatterdemalion. 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.
Morning: Mt Field National Park, rainforests and waterfalls
Afternoon: Visiting
tatterdemalion, tea, laughing a lot, and not wanting to leaveEvening: 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.
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Date: 13 Apr 2008 02:46 (UTC)Ok, they're teeny tiny mountains but they have charm.