Three Little Hills 26 Jan 21

Today's walk is a variation on previous walks that we have done in this area and involves traversing three hills behind Geilston Bay and Risdon Vale.

Ready to go.

 

First Track.

Newly laid track surface.

New bridge.

Another new bridge.

And another.

Starting the climb.

Tasting the Native Cherries.

The track starts to climb.

Resting on the climb.

Mount Wellington through the trees.

No Bob, we are not going to climb this chimney there has to be another way.

We go around instead.

The final climb.

Forest floor art.

Bob, is this the morning tea spot.

Was it really 46 years ago??. Chris reminiscing.

Heading down for the next hill.

I thought we were going this way.

Apparently not.

Is that Bob among the trees.

A view up the Derwent.

Towards Midway Point.

 Down the bike track.

Up Caves Hill.

 View to Tasman Peninsula.

Lunch spot on Caves Hill.

Pink Bindweed.

Wild geranium.

Its downhill from here.

Butterfly alley.

Common Brown Butterfly. There were hundreds in this little valley.

This was a pleasant walk, the hills were not that bad really and we were rewarded with good views from all three summits.

We had 7 walkers and we cover approximately 11 km in 3.5 hours.

Adamsons Falls 19 Jan 2021

Today we are walking into Adamsons Falls in Tasmania's southern forest. It is a drive of approximately one and a half hours via Dover and for a number of our walkers a first time to these Falls.

 

 

Inspecting the last bit of the road into the carpark.

Getting ready to start the walk.

 

 

Following the first part of the track which appears to be an old logging track.

 

 

The first of a lot of very large trees in this part of the walk.

 

 

A very large stump remaining from when the forest was selectively logged. 

Note the axe notches where the tree fellers put their planks to stand on while they felled this tree.

 

 

One of the last remaining big trees up close and personal.

 

And then a young Celery Top Pine grows.

 

Another obstacle across the track. 

It was about here that the comment was passed that there is no need to go the gym this week.

 

And this shows the size of the obstacle, there was no going around it.

 

The base of another fallen tree.

 

 

Old end-on log stepping stones specifically for avoiding the following -

Mud Glorious Mud.

 Leatherwood Flower - there were loads of trees in flower.

How dense the forest is alongside the track.

 

Now the climbing up begins.

 

The down and up again....

 

Straight out of "Lord of the Rings'.

 

Bracket Fungi.

 

First sighting of the lower falls.

 

The view from the lower falls.

 

Adamsons Falls.

 

A bunch of walkers looking up at the falls.

 

A steep lunch spot and a good thing that there were not many other walkers on the track.

More down and up on the return journey.

We are nearly back to the cars.

It was just past this point that I saw my first snake this summer, not expecting that in the rainforest. 

The consensus was that this was a good walk with fairly varied terrain and the weather was sunny with no rain.

It would be interesting to be able to find out the history of this piece of Tasmania's forest industry and the effort it would have taken firstly cut done the timber and then to transport it to the coast through what is fairly rugged country.

We had 12 walkers and covered the 7 kms in just on 2 hours.

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