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Tasmania #02 Collage
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Dove Lake
Cradle Mountain World Heritage National Park, Tasmania
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Commencing walk
Commencing the anti-clockwise walk around the 6kms Dove Lake Circuit in light rain
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View of Dove Lake
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Boatshed on Dove Lake
Cradle Mountain behind is obscured by Cloud
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Boatshed on Dove Lake
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View across Dove Lake
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Glancing Back
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Gunn's geebung (Persoonia gunnii)
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Ripples on Dove Lake
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White Tea-tree foreground
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Really Raining now!!
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Glimmer of Light
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Waterfall on Dove Lake Circuit
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Waterfall on Dove Lake Circuit
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Cloud rolled in 2 minutes later
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Cloud covered Waterfall
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Smoking Mountains
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Hidden Views
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Raindrops Falling
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Ballroom Forest
Ancient Cool Temperate Rainforest of Cradle Mountain World Heritage National Park
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Ballroom Forest Walkway
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Moss and Lichens
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Dark Forest
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Wet Boardwalk
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Steep Descent
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More Rain
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Misty View
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Capped by Cloud
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Covered by Cloud
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Banksia Frame
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Fresh Vegatation
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Through the Trees
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Weather changes quickly
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Mixed Vegetation
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Cutting Grass
Gahnia grandis Cyperaceae is a saw sedge, not a true grass
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Across Dove Lake to Waterfall
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Waterfall from across Dove Lake
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Beyond the Trees
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Zoomed to Waterfall
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Boatshed on Far Bank
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Zoomed to Boatshed
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Cloud Rolling In
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Still Walking around Dove Lake
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Completion of 6km Dove Lake Circuit
Beautiful Cradle Mountain is completely hidden in Cloud
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Another Day Dawns
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Pencil Pine Falls
Cascading Waterfall surrounded by Pencil Pines (Athrotaxis cupressoides)
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Rainforest Walk along Pencil Pine Creek
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Moss and Lichen
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Myrtle-beech (Nothofagus cunninghamii)
The dominant species of the cool temperate rainforest
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Alpine Moorland Waldheim
Button Grass and Alpine Ferns form the vegetation of these Glacial Plains at Waldheim
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Waldheim Alpine Moorland
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Tasmanian Pademelon
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King Billy pine (Athrotaxis selaginoides)
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Waldheim Chalet
Gustav Weindorfer built 'Waldheim' (his 'forest home') in Cradle Valley and lived there with his wife Kate until his death in 1932
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Gustav Weindorfer
He began the movement that eventually led to the Cradle Mountain Wilderness World Heritage listing
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Kate Weindorfer in the historic Waldheim Chalet
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Weindorfer's Grave
Pandani (Richea pandanifolia Epacridaceae) beside the Grave of Gustav Weindorfer at Waldheim
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Weindorfers Forest Walk
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Forest Floor
Pine Needles, Moss and Liverwort on the Forest Floor at Waldheim
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Ancient Tree Base
This Giant of the Forest is over 1,000 years old and stands tall in Weindorfers Forest
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Ancient Tree Top
Upper part of this Ancient Tree which is over 1,000 years old
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King Billy Stump
This Stump remains from a tree that was logged over 90 years ago. The hard timber has weathered to a smooth marble like surface on the stump
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Cool Rainforest Ferns
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Finger Fern (Grammitis billardieri Grammitidaceae)
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King Billy Pines and Pandani at Waldheim
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Re-visit Dove Lake
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Zoomed in to view the peaks of Cradle Mountain
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Cradle Mountain beyond Dove Lake
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Marions Lookout
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Ronny Creek
Leaving Ronny Creek for 5km walk to Cradle Valley Visitors Centre
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Conifers beside Cradle Valley Boardwalk
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Hillside Chalet
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Mountain View
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Winding Boardwalk
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Creek Crossing
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Mountain Stream
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Hillside View
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Eucalypts and Button Grass
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Dainty Alpine Flowers
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Conifers and Eucalypts
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Ground cover
Button Grass (Gymnoschoenus spaerocephalus) and Alpine Coral Fern (Gleichenia alpina) beside Cradle Valley Boardwalk
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Dieback of Eucalypts
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Dying Trees
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Tea-tree (Leptospernum nitidum)
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Red Leaves of young Eucalypts
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View from Cradle Valley Boardwalk
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Tasmanian Waratah (Telopea truncata)
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Cutting Grass (Gahnia grandis Cyperaceae)
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Natural Bushland
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Wombat's Home in Hollow Tree Trunk
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Trees and Ferns
An understory of Alpine Fern and Button Grass
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Winding uphill path of Cradle Valley Boardwalk
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Button Grass (Gymnoschoenus spaerocephalus)
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Weary Walkers
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Walking the Cradle Valley Boardwalk
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View of Cradle Mountain
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Mountain View
The Zig Zag Trail of the Cradle Mountain Boardwalk as it winds up Snake Hill
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Cradle Mountain
Zoomed in for the last view of Cradle Mountain from the Cradle Valley Boardwalk
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Snow Gum (Eucalyptus coccifera)
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Trunks of Contrasting Colours
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Rugged Hill
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Snow Gums and Button Grass
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Snow Gums and Button Grass
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Walk completed
Routes completed:- Dove Lake Circuit and Cradle Valley Boardwalk from Ronny Creek to Visitor Centre
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