-
13 Attachment(s)
Tassie 2020
Only just finished going through photos, had thousands lol, but recently spent two weeks in Tassie, mostly the west in January, was wicked. . .
Started at Hartz Mountains in the south east. Was very lucky with the weather was absolutely beautiful, spent the day doing the walk up the top stunning spot. .
Attachment 80210
Attachment 80211
Attachment 80212
Attachment 80213
Attachment 80214
Attachment 80215
Attachment 80216
Attachment 80217
Beautiful old glacial lakes, went for a quick dip, was Petty fresh lol. .
Attachment 80218
Attachment 80219
Attachment 80220
Attachment 80221
Stayed at Arve River Picnic Area (campgroud) pretty busy but good spot. .
Attachment 80222
-
14 Attachment(s)
Next day took the scenic route across to near Derwent Bridge, turned into a bit of an adventure . . .
Attachment 80284
Tried a track that was marked on Hema that cut across to the Stix Valley road but was pretty overgrown . . .
Attachment 80285
Attachment 80286
Attachment 80287
Ended up at a crossing of the Stix river that was defiantly not crossable, no solo anyway. . . Anyway beautiful spot and no riff raff down here. .
Attachment 80288
Back tracked and finally made it out after hitting locked gates coming out of the pine plantations and following a maze of roads. Cruised through the Sitx valley and stopped at the tall trees conservation reserve. .
Attachment 80289
Attachment 80290
Attachment 80291
Continued though the Florentine Valley that runs behind Mt Field. Nearly came out the other side and hit a road closed sign. . . ARRRGH . .Thought bugger it drove around it and came across two dudes doing some bridge work, asked if i could drive though and let us, bloody champions would have been at least a few hours to go around.
Attachment 80292
Derwent River just below Lake Repulse
Attachment 80293
Crazy these old wooden pipes amazing the labor going into these.
Attachment 80294
Met up with MB and co and camped at Laughing Jack Lagoon just out of Derwent Bridge, nice little spot. Smokey day from Vic and Tas fires. .
Attachment 80295
Attachment 80296
Attachment 80298
-
9 Attachment(s)
Hmm previous post coming up as attachment on desktop not sure why it seems to do that might have to re do those hope these work . .
Attachment 80238
Cut across to Queenstown then camped at Darwin boat ramp on Lake Burbury. .
Attachment 80239
Attachment 80240
Drove into the Mt McCall track after picking up a key from the parks office in St Claire.
Attachment 80241
Attachment 80242
Attachment 80243
Attachment 80244
Pretty scenic drive and ends up not far from the Franklin river with a very steep walk down to it down the old haulage road.
-
8 Attachment(s)
. . .
Attachment 80299
Attachment 80300
Old tramlines and winch from back in the day. Pretty crazy soo steep. .
Attachment 80301
Attachment 80302
Attachment 80303
Franklin River deep in the wilderness
Attachment 80304
Attachment 80305
Attachment 80306
. . .
-
9 Attachment(s)
-
9 Attachment(s)
Last 2 posts coming up as attachments as well - grr quite annoying. .
After heading out of Mt McCall ducked down to Bird River Bridge. .
Attachment 80265
Attachment 80266
Attachment 80267
Attachment 80268
Attachment 80269
Headed up Mt Darwin which is supposed to have some pretty impressive views however was a bit of a white out up the top . . good little drive but.
Attachment 80270
Attachment 80271
Attachment 80272
Pretty good views coming down from the fog. .
Attachment 80273
-
10 Attachment(s)
. . .
Onto camp at Trial Harbor for a couple of nights . .
Attachment 80316
Attachment 80317
Attachment 80318
Cool track following an old tramway which there must have been so many back in the day. Seemed to be struggling with traction on this track till i worked out the hubs weren't locked lol. .
Attachment 80319
Attachment 80320
Attachment 80321
Attachment 80322
Attachment 80323
Didn't see anybody on the track in but quite a lot of people did the walk in from the other side.
Attachment 80324
Attachment 80325
-
All good now. Thank you for taking the time to post up all off those beautiful pics.
-
Great to see you got down to the Franklin. We couldn't get the keys to the gate as the rangers were all away on a group hike somewhere. Did you get to see the helipad with 'No Dam' still painted on it? We di the walk along the Bird River into Pillinger instead & loved it. Loved our time in Trial Harbour too. Did the Montezuma Falls track by ourselves - Sh*tting myself a couple of times. Didn't take any pics until we got to the falls, so great to see yours of the track. The west coast of Tassie is a great part of the world & your photos do it justice. Thanks for sharing.
-
12 Attachment(s)
Back out through Ring River track. Was a great track plain sailing in the dry but would be different story in the wet. .
Attachment 80326
Attachment 80327
Attachment 80328
Attachment 80329
Attachment 80330
Attachment 80331
Attachment 80332
Attachment 80333
Attachment 80334
Attachment 80335
Back into camp after restocking and doing some washing in sunny Zeehan. Headed up to the spray tunnel in the evening (shoulda stayed in Zeehan really) to check out the glow worms, was pretty impressive. .
Attachment 80336
Attachment 80337