Wilderness Tasmania

Tasmania takes conservation seriously, as shown in the number of national parks and world heritage sites on the island. Understandably, these parks are a major tourist drawcard for the island. This portfolio depicts some of the places visited over a couple of weeks before the coronavirus interrupted our travels and expedited our return home. Enjoy the landscapes, the vegetation and the waterfalls of parks found across the centre and north of the island, from the sea and river scapes around Low Point, Dunalley and New Norfolk, to the extraordinary trees and water falls of Mt Field and Liffey in the middle and to the west around Queenstown.

Beautiful Liffey Falls.

Liffey Falls State Reserve is nestled in the cool temperate rainforest of the Great Western Tiers mountain range in Tasmania's north and is part of the Tasmanian Wilderness World Heritage Area.

The Liffey River rises on the northern edge of the Great Western Tiers and plunges through dense rainforest of myrtle, sassafras and leatherwood, running over several magnificent waterfalls before reaching rich farmlands and joining the South Esk River.

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Purple appleberry (Billardiera longiflora)

Launceston

.........and right in the middle of the town, beautiful Cataract Gorge. What a great natural asset.

Crossing the gorge, Kings Bridge, Launceston

Low Head on the western side of the Tamar River mouth

Harking back to a different era. On the Brid River, Bridport.

Dunalley Beach, Arthur Highway, north of Port Arthur

Afternoon reflections, River Derwent, New Norfolk

Morning Light, River Derwent, New Norfolk

Russell Falls, Mt Field National Park. The park was included in the Tasmanian Wilderness World Heritage Area in 2013

Horshoe Falls, Mt Field

The giant ash (Eucalyptus regnans) is the tallest tree species in Australia and the second tallest in the world. On the Russell Falls track trees higher than 70m can be admired.

A fallen giant

Kinky

Tree fern gulley

Lady Barron Falls

Nelson Falls, Princess River Conservation Area near Queenstown

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