Chopper waiting for ambulance to arrive.
Chopper taking off with crash victim aboard.
7TH FEB - Arrived at Lake St. Clair Nat. Park after 6.30pm because of the accident. The Nat.Park facilities are beautiful, but we weren’t going to pay $24 entry at that time of day! ($24 a day per car, $12 per person), plus camp fees on top….. we should have purchased a $60 2 month pass I guess but I just can’t get over how it costs that much per day at all the parks …(to think people whinge to me at my Bungonia park because trey have to pay $7, and if you walk in or cycle in, it’s free….. NOT SO HERE IN TAS. Drove back couple of kms, beside river inlet of Lake St. Clair, and camped in the quietness on the river bank. Little like a graveyard because most of the immediate trees on other side of river had been felled, I imagine to create a dam, but it gives it a eerie, sad, feel, but beautiful just the same.
We were really cold, with three layers of clothing… I had T-shirt, Michael’s jumper, my fleecy jacket and his fleecy zip up sleeveless jacket as well, and I slept in my trakky daks, and trakky fleecy top. It’s just like winter at home. (but then again, this is all snow country in winter) and when it’s raining, it’s dull and depressing.
Our camp site down on Tyenna River
Tyenna River campsite again with MichaelALL OTHER PICS FOR NEXT COUPLE OF DAYS WILL FOLLOW AS SEPARATE BLOG
For some reason it is not allowing me to download the next lots ....???? ..... so you will get the pics before the journalling below.........
8th FEB - Had late breakfast, then cleaned up and set off for ‘’THE WALL’’ down to Derwent Bridge, an amazing 10 year project for sculptor Greg Duncan to finish. He is now into his 6th year on it. It is being done out of Huon pine, and you can see why sculptors love to use Huon pine even though it is so expensive. His works – e.g. pair of gloves – look exactly like soft pigskin, and he has sculpted coats and overalls hanging on pegs and you would swear they were soft material….. INCREDIBLE WORK and incredible place…. If you ever get over here, don’t miss ‘’THE WALL’’ !! when we came out, there was beautiful sunshine at last …… whee !!!!!
Started driving due East through Central Highlands, which is more like NSW (around Goulburn, Gundagai areas). Lovely small villages and towns along the way, but roads are very winding, and up and down all the time. Occasionally I thought I was going to get car sick, but didn’t.
Stopped again beside river at Westerway and set up camp for the night. Beautiful and sunny still (in fact quite hot). Decided to light a fire to cook on and it was so nice just sitting by the fire after dinner, looking up at the Milky Way, and watching UFO’s (as Michael insisted they were)….. Don’t know what the lights were moving very fast towards the south and west, because there sure as heck isn’t any countries or civilization in that direction !!!!
9TH FEB - Woke to a day of glorious sunshine in our lovely camping spot, so lit another cooking fire and cooked brekky as well as cereals, then topped up our water supply from the fast flowing river, and headed off for Mt. Field N.P. which was only a few kms up the road. Paid our $24 to go in because we wanted to see Russell Falls, and the Tall Trees Walk (the gigantic swamp gums are dead straight and way over 300-350 feet high). The tree ferns are like the giant palms you see in people’s front gardens in Sydney. We cycled up to the Tall Trees section.
There are signs in the Tall Trees Forest Walk warning about falling trees or branches at any time, which was a bit off putting when you see the massive size of these trees !!!
Went from there all the way to the most Western part of Franklin-Gordon Wild Rivers N.P. ….. through Lake Pedder and on to the extreme – Gordon Dam (on the right of the road). SPECTACULAR ! … with deep gorges (like Bungonia) on the outer wall side. The base of the wall is 17.7 metres thick.
So glad we made the effort to travel over 100 kms on this road just to see Lake Pedder and Lake Gordon (and the dam). Have to travel the whole same way back again east tomorrow, but it was worth it.
Drove back to Ted’s Beach, which is on the shores of Lake Pedder for the night. The beach is snow white, and that is because it is made up of crushed fine quartzite ancient white rock, so there are fine sand particle sizes, and some coarser parts, and ebb tidal rows of white pebbles and rocks, and the water is fresh water and Tannin blood coloured as are all the massive waterways in these wilderness mountains.
Will take couple of shots while it’s still hot and sunny even though it is now 6.25pm, then I better get some dinner started and a nice sit down with a Jim Beam and Coke !
OK, dinner finished , dishes done, had our walk, etc ….. but can’t post this !!!
No reception here at all for our phones, or ‘dongle’, so once again, this will be a late multi day post.
That’s it for now.
Off to New Norfolk and maybe Hobart tomorrow….. definitely won’t be seeing all we planned to, as our holiday is already half over, and we haven’t even started on the ‘’busy’’ side of Tassie yet.
Take care, xxx
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