1 Tasmania #02 Collage
| 2 Dove Lake Cradle Mountain World Heritage National Park, Tasmania
| 3 Commencing walk Commencing the anti-clockwise walk around the 6kms Dove Lake Circuit in light rain
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4 View of Dove Lake
| 5 Boatshed on Dove Lake Cradle Mountain behind is obscured by Cloud
| 6 Boatshed on Dove Lake
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7 View across Dove Lake
| 8 Glancing Back
| 9 Gunn's geebung (Persoonia gunnii)
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10 Ripples on Dove Lake
| 11 White Tea-tree foreground
| 12 Really Raining now!!
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13 Glimmer of Light
| 14 Waterfall on Dove Lake Circuit
| 15 Waterfall on Dove Lake Circuit
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16 Cloud rolled in 2 minutes later
| 17 Cloud covered Waterfall
| 18 Smoking Mountains
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19 Hidden Views
| 20 Raindrops Falling
| 21 Ballroom Forest Ancient Cool Temperate Rainforest of Cradle Mountain World Heritage National Park
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22 Ballroom Forest Walkway
| 23 Moss and Lichens
| 24 Dark Forest
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25 Wet Boardwalk
| 26 Steep Descent
| 27 More Rain
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28 Misty View
| 29 Capped by Cloud
| 30 Covered by Cloud
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31 Banksia Frame
| 32 Fresh Vegatation
| 33 Through the Trees
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34 Weather changes quickly
| 35 Mixed Vegetation
| 36 Cutting Grass Gahnia grandis Cyperaceae is a saw sedge, not a true grass
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37 Across Dove Lake to Waterfall
| 38 Waterfall from across Dove Lake
| 39 Beyond the Trees
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40 Zoomed to Waterfall
| 41 Boatshed on Far Bank
| 42 Zoomed to Boatshed
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43 Cloud Rolling In
| 44 Still Walking around Dove Lake
| 45 Completion of 6km Dove Lake Circuit Beautiful Cradle Mountain is completely hidden in Cloud
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46 Another Day Dawns
| 47 Pencil Pine Falls Cascading Waterfall surrounded by Pencil Pines (Athrotaxis cupressoides)
| 48 Rainforest Walk along Pencil Pine Creek
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49 Moss and Lichen
| 50 Myrtle-beech (Nothofagus cunninghamii) The dominant species of the cool temperate rainforest
| 51 Alpine Moorland Waldheim Button Grass and Alpine Ferns form the vegetation of these Glacial Plains at Waldheim
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52 Waldheim Alpine Moorland
| 53 Tasmanian Pademelon
| 54 King Billy pine (Athrotaxis selaginoides)
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55 Waldheim Chalet Gustav Weindorfer built 'Waldheim' (his 'forest home') in Cradle Valley and lived there with his wife Kate until his death in 1932
| 56 Gustav Weindorfer He began the movement that eventually led to the Cradle Mountain Wilderness World Heritage listing
| 57 Kate Weindorfer in the historic Waldheim Chalet
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58 Weindorfer's Grave Pandani (Richea pandanifolia Epacridaceae) beside the Grave of Gustav Weindorfer at Waldheim
| 59 Weindorfers Forest Walk
| 60 Forest Floor Pine Needles, Moss and Liverwort on the Forest Floor at Waldheim
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61 Ancient Tree Base This Giant of the Forest is over 1,000 years old and stands tall in Weindorfers Forest
| 62 Ancient Tree Top Upper part of this Ancient Tree which is over 1,000 years old
| 63 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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64 Cool Rainforest Ferns
| 65 Finger Fern (Grammitis billardieri Grammitidaceae)
| 66 King Billy Pines and Pandani at Waldheim
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67 Re-visit Dove Lake
| 68 Zoomed in to view the peaks of Cradle Mountain
| 69 Cradle Mountain beyond Dove Lake
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70 Marions Lookout
| 71 Ronny Creek Leaving Ronny Creek for 5km walk to Cradle Valley Visitors Centre
| 72 Conifers beside Cradle Valley Boardwalk
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73 Hillside Chalet
| 74 Mountain View
| 75 Winding Boardwalk
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76 Creek Crossing
| 77 Mountain Stream
| 78 Hillside View
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79 Eucalypts and Button Grass
| 80 Dainty Alpine Flowers
| 81 Conifers and Eucalypts
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82 Ground cover Button Grass (Gymnoschoenus spaerocephalus) and Alpine Coral Fern (Gleichenia alpina) beside Cradle Valley Boardwalk
| 83 Dieback of Eucalypts
| 84 Dying Trees
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85 Tea-tree (Leptospernum nitidum)
| 86 Red Leaves of young Eucalypts
| 87 View from Cradle Valley Boardwalk
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88 Tasmanian Waratah (Telopea truncata)
| 89 Cutting Grass (Gahnia grandis Cyperaceae)
| 90 Natural Bushland
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91 Wombat's Home in Hollow Tree Trunk
| 92 Trees and Ferns An understory of Alpine Fern and Button Grass
| 93 Winding uphill path of Cradle Valley Boardwalk
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94 Button Grass (Gymnoschoenus spaerocephalus)
| 95 Weary Walkers
| 96 Walking the Cradle Valley Boardwalk
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97 View of Cradle Mountain
| 98 Mountain View The Zig Zag Trail of the Cradle Mountain Boardwalk as it winds up Snake Hill
| 99 Cradle Mountain Zoomed in for the last view of Cradle Mountain from the Cradle Valley Boardwalk
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100 Snow Gum (Eucalyptus coccifera)
| 101 Trunks of Contrasting Colours
| 102 Rugged Hill
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103 Snow Gums and Button Grass
| 104 Snow Gums and Button Grass
| 105 Walk completed Routes completed:- Dove Lake Circuit and Cradle Valley Boardwalk from Ronny Creek to Visitor Centre
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