How have you all been, guys? Sorry for leaving this post unattended for such a while, now let's pick up from where I left.
09/11/2014Lake St Clair-->Mt Field National Park-->Hobart
本帖最后由 yping88 于 27-1-2015 21:49 编辑
The mountain views on the way to Mt Field National Park!
天苍苍，野茫茫，风吹草低见牛羊！
The lovely farm sceneries that ever faded into memory came back to live and kept hitting our eyes with the breathtaking evergreens while we were driving along!
本帖最后由 yping88 于 27-1-2015 15:32 编辑
Lagoons, lakes and rivers have always fitted well into Tasmania's unique landscape, making it a more fascinating tourist attraction!
I kept thinking to myself, if possible, I could, for a long day, sit there somewhere around the waters, doing nothing but gazing at them, talking to them without being bored!
The vegetation around the lagoon doesn't seem to mean much in particular, but I am always attracted to them and always wonder what story could be told of them!
本帖最后由 yping88 于 27-1-2015 15:51 编辑
These trees have intrigued me in a way how they grow differently than the others do, whether they are given life by the plants climbing and entangling them, or whether it's just the way they declare their existence themselves!
Wondering who could give me an answer to my wonder!
本帖最后由 yping88 于 27-1-2015 21:47 编辑
The pines thrive in the wildly big scale under plantation forestry regime in a purpose to promote softwood products, improve environmental values and water quality, deliver salinity mitigation and benefit a wide range of wildlife!
A very well-done to Tasmania's plantation industry!
Casual snapshots on the road leading to the entrance to Mt Field National Park!
The trees in the entrance to Mt Field National Park seem to prove what the theme will be for this park!
I am always trying to show off my artistic eyes for floral shots!
Rain Forest around Russel Falls!
It always strikes me with a loud bang mentally whenever I come across the stump like this: How on earth the growth rings could be counted correctly and the age of a tree calculated accordingly on a huge ancient tree!
Is that mushroom or something that could ensure human's longevity after being taken to human's dinning table?
By uploading more pictures of Myrtle, you could definitely feel my obsession with these plants that rarely seen anywhere else other than Tasmania's alpine areas!
本帖最后由 yping88 于 28-1-2015 08:29 编辑
The gigantic trees around Tall Tree Track! Tasmania's forests are well known for housing stunningly tall tree species!
Horseshoe Falls!
Lady Barron falls
I have felt the powerful growth and resilience of life in these ferntree shoots!
Another rainforest? Come on, are you serious? Haven't we seen enough of them up to this thread?
No more, please!!! Wish you haven't got rainforest view intolerance yet! :lol :lol :lol
Let's move to Tasmania. :)
This long unbearable heat this summer in Brisbane
is beyond my endurance, 35, 37, 40 degrees commonly seen, plus truly humid, i mean truly,extremely humid :s2
本帖最后由 yping88 于 28-1-2015 14:31 编辑
Farewelled Mt Field National Park, we were heading for Hobart! We appreciated Derwent River's constant and loyal accompany all the way along after driving past a bridge over the river!
From this point onwards, the landscape will gradually switch to water front view, then, oceanic scenery!
Yey, I am taking you all eastward to east coast of Tasmania now! Please stick around!
Gentle, soothing, hilly landscapes keep blending into our vision and get us prepared well for the east coastal sceneries!
The camera is good, and the photographer is even better. :good :oil
Derwent River:it originates at Lake St Clair from the ancient glaciers in the surrounding mountains and flows south over a distance of 187 km to New Norfolk and the estuary portion extends a further 52 km out to the sea in Hobart.
The large estuary forms the Port of the City of Hobart – often claimed to be the deepest sheltered harbour in the Southern Hemisphere; At points in its lower reaches the river is nearly three kilometres wide, and as such is the widest river in Tasmania. The harbour has been used nowadays for the finish line of the annual yacht race from Sydney to Hobart!
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/River_Derwent_%28Tasmania%29
More of River Derwent! Some photos are repetitive, but I don't have the heart to cut any of them out of the post! Please view them with your tolerance! :lol :lol :lol
Thank you for sticking around for more to follow!
I guess I am taking advantage of your tolerance here by uploading more photos of River Derwent according to my preference! But, I just couldn't help it, the view is so breathtaking!
本帖最后由 yping88 于 28-1-2015 15:23 编辑
More of River Derwent??? Are you seriously kidding us, yping88?
Haaahaaa, what can you do with me? My post, my call! :heihei
We were about to enter the city of Hobart! Could you all see the Derwent River Bridge in the distance?
Here, I am afraid I will have a disastrous story to tell of this bridge!
The Tasman Bridge disaster occurred on the evening of 5 January 1975, in Hobart, when a bulk ore carrier travelling up the Derwent River collided with several pylons of the Tasman Bridge, causing a large section of the bridge deck to collapse onto the ship and into the river below. Twelve people were killed, including seven crew on board the ship, and the five occupants of four cars which fell 45 m after driving off the bridge. The disaster severed the main link between Hobart and its eastern suburbs, and is notable for the social impacts that resulted from the loss of such an important road artery.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tasman_Bridge_disaster
I would like to take a little break before taking you into Hobart city, which will be a big section of our Tasmania tour!