Today we started out from the car park at Cascade Brewery on a walk led by Ron.
We started out and, as I knew it would involve some steep climbs, I opted to drop out and do a walk on my own at my pace which has gotten slower with the years! I followed some tracks leading through the bush and some that turned out to be animal tracks, but had a good time.
Peter has kindly supplied photos and a summary of the walk below. As it turned out, I only walked about a kilometre less then the others.
Jack
Here are the track notes.
There were 12 walkers and we traveled 9.5
km over 3.5 hours.
Here are the track notes.
There were 12 walkers and we traveled 9.5
km over 3.5 hours.
Today's walk, led by Ron, commenced at the
Cascade Brewery climbing the lower slopes
of the mountain before returning to South
Hobart via Strickland Falls.
Today's walk, led by Ron, commenced at the
Cascade Brewery climbing the lower slopes
of the mountain before returning to South
Hobart via Strickland Falls.
A good walk enjoyed by all (except for Jack).
I especially enjoyed it as I had missed our
previous walk over the same area.
Setting off 
Back of the brewery
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| Start of the track |
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| Hobart Rivulet |
The Rivulet was the source of the water for the brewery in
the beginning.
Red Bearded Orchid
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| Our first climb |
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| Orchards yet to bloom |
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| Fungus |
All this would have been stripped bare many years ago to
supply wood to fuel the boilers in the brewery.
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| Life wasn't meant to be easy |
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| Turn left and climb |
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| Lots of blossom at this time of year |
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| New life |
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| Maroonhood |
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| Morning Tea |
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| There are several ways to go from here |
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| I've left the group from here |
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| A wee hill (Bob's definition!) | |
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| Resting on "A wee hill" |
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| Bird Orchid |
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| Mount Wellington/kunanyi |
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| Insect tracks that were under the gum tree bark |
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| Navigating around a watercourse |
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| Strickland Falls |
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| Lunch spot |
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| Black Currawong looking for morning tea |
With another Black Currawong 
Down the hill on the way home
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| Mountain Caladenia |
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| Mountain Caladenia by two |
A book and a flip chart and I still can't identify it - Jack 
A busy ant
The ant in the blue oval dragged that piece of wood all over
the ant hill. I suppose he was looking for the freight
entrance. His mate was no help.
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