Surprises and stripes

Another Tassie day beginning with impressive low clouds…

A surprising waterhole with surprising colours after a dry climb in Douglas Apsley National Park.  People were there, after swimming; I felt the water and again, it wasn’t cold.

And another Tassie day with impressive mountains coming into view… only I think I know these ones, as I am in the Freycinet National Park.

Yes, they are the Hazards, here seen from Coles Bay.  They look like they’d be snow-covered in winter, but I asked, and I was told they are not, or not usually.

On the quite steep walk up to the Wineglass Bay Lookout, I decided it is not the mountains here that are most notable, but the rocks. Striped and bulbous cliffs and boulders.

And I could have waited for the orange rocks…

An enormous amount of work has gone into making these rock paths and steps, and the sideshows of nature’s work are even more impressive.

Stripey cliffs and stripey trees, in colours that keep me snapping photos.

A lone example of a Heath, but I am not sure which one: the Common Heath (Epacris impressa) or Pink Moutain Heath (Archeris combari),

But the ever-present and generously flowering Banksias cannot be surpassed with their lemon purity.

I do make it to to the top but the weather refuses to provide a picture postcard Wineglass Bay. The shape is there, but not that brilliant blue as I saw at Bay of Fires.

Next time…