We are off to the west coast today for a couple of days and have booked in overnight at a cabin in Strahan for the night.
Getting away nice and early we stopped at our first place of interest, Russell Falls at Mount Field National Park where we saw Pademelons (they look like fat wallabies)
There are Hydro electric power stations dotted all over the place in Tasmania and so when a sign came up for Tarraleah it seemed like a good space to stop and have a look. Tarraleah is the most bizarre place, but more about it later when we visit on the return trip.
The further west we travel the more unpredictable the weather is becoming, its changing every 20 mins from sunny and warm to cold and raining.
Just below the township of Tarraleah on the river we found a picnic ground with a shelter for our lunch.
Speaking to our neighbours Keith and Pam at the Snug caravan park they told us about a place called “The Wall in the Wilderness” The Wall is being carved from Huon Pine panels, each panel is 3 metres high and when completed the wall will be 100 metres long. No cameras were allowed inside the gallery and i can’t even begin to describe how life like the carvings are.
A very quick stop at Lake St Clair the wind has arctic qualities about it now and its 4 degrees outside now.
We start our way through the Franklin-Gordon National Park, its raining sleet now and foggy, with low level clouds which in turn gives the landscape a surreal quality.
The strange bare hills of Queenstown are an extraordinary insight into mining gone mad. Vegetation was cleared for fuel and acid rain caused from smelting has hampered any chances of revegetation of the landscape.
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Holiday 2010 (Tasmania), Day 12 - Holiday 2010 in Tasmania
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Thursday, 18 November 2010
