Silk Road Trip

A trip to remember

Tasmania Trip 2009 - Colombia Falls, North and East Coastline

The Colombia Falls are situated between East and North Beaches

Fox gloves on the way down from the falls.

Tamar River and Bird life along the river

Oops! this is not a bird, a little bunny grazing in the morning along Tamar river.

Some friendly ducks at our unit in Bridport.

A muril from Sheffield. This town is know as muril town and there are a lot of murils on the walls in the park etc.

The Boathouse resort, the sea is almost green here.

Table Cape and on the way down

Table Cape Light House, one of the many lighthouses along the coast.

There are a lot of opium poppy fields around the north part of Tasmana. Yes, we do grow poppies for medical reasons. Poor Afganies.

An old shed next to a house, observe the white fields behind.

View is breathtaking as you climb down. The white fields you see are pyrethrum fields Tasmania produces over 30% of the world's , the botanical insecticide derived from the white chrysanthemum daisy. They are also harvested for producing a chemical for killing insects.

There was a pure black sheep in this family but it run away as I was taking the picture. White chrysanthemum daisies close up, pretty aren't they?

An old shed along the way down, I just love the colours and the composition.

The East Coast - Bay of Fires

There are many uncrowded beautiful lagoons, beaches and secluded bays to explore along the east coast, enjoy the journey!

A stone house build by a friend along the coast.

Bicheno is a pretty seaside town in the south of east coast and it used to be a whaling center in early 18 century, it also have a little fairy penquin colony along the beach.

As you walk along the grassy area of the beach you can find baby penguins in their nests. Just follow the little path to the nest where you see some droppings. Here is one baby fairy penguin patiently wating for her parents.

An old bridge on the way to Richmond.

A little inlet on the way to Garden

Tasmania Trip 2009 - Mount Field National Park

Russell and Lady Baron Falls

These two falls are two of Tasmania's most treasured places. The falls can be reached by a very easy track that suits both young and old.

On the way to Russell Falls

The tall swamp gums are the tallest trees in Australia and common to this area of Mount Field National Park.

Trunk of a tall swamp gum, see the green moss around the body.

We sighted and took a picture of a little pink belly robin - apparently it is a very rare bird.



On the way to Barron Falls, not too far from Russell Falls.

Lady Barron Falls.

Lupins are considered to be weeds here and found along the roads, specially the yellow ones.

The fox gloves are also common and found at most national parks. I am sure they are not native to Tasmania.

Tasmania Trip 2009 - Lake St Clair National Park

Tullah Chalet

We stayed the night at Tullah Chalet. A beautiful little spot between Cradle Mountains and Lake St Clairs. Our room was facing the serene Tullah lake, just breathtaking.

View from the restaurant early in the morning

On the way to St Clair Lake

After our rest at Tullah we headed to Derwent Bridge (our next stop for the night). A few lakes here and there and the most interesting of all was the outskirsts of Queenstown. Queenstown is a copper mining town and as a result of some toxic chemical spillage caused a major disaster killing all the trees and vegitation in the town. The earth was red and barren. As we drove out of the town we couldn't escape the curious colours of the hills and the landscape, almost pink in colour but my camera didn't handle it that well. The next three pictures are the best I could do.

An abondened Cafe; observe the colour of the hills.

The creek colour was brown. What a contrast fresh green growth against the brown water.

The Burbury Lake a few miles later, raintrout is farmed here, I hope it is not toxic. The hills are still a little pink here as well.

Derwent Bridge and St Clair Lake

a curious moss

However, we didn't see any platypus here.