Cradle Mountain National Park
The lighthouse at Mersey Bluff, Devonport
The Aboriginal Cultural Centre on the bluff which has had continual occupation for thousands f years thus making it an important sacred site.
Being introduced to some of the items such as ochre, eucalyptus leaves to brush away negative energy and banging sticks.
W stopped for lunch in Sheffield, a former industrial town now hosting tourists who come to see...
...not a collction of old cars that was gathering in the square...
...and plenty of them on sho...
but to see the murals, more than 60 of them scattered about the township.
...and more examples...
...and more.
And then it was a visit to Cradle Mountain National Park...with snow on the tops of the mountains
...and th path down to Dove Lake...
...some of the flora...
...a view back across the lake to a visitor centre....
...looking up the lake...
...the boathouse...
....a wombat...
...and a picture to show how large they are. They closest relative are koalas. Their poo is distinctive as it is very dry and comes out in cubes like ice cubes.
A bridge over one of many rivers, en route to Kate Cowel and Gustav Weindorfer who were instrumental in protecting Buffalo and later protected Cradle Mountain becoming a protected area in 1921.
Another wombat.
Part of Kate and Gustav's Walheim chalet.
Not a kangaroo or a wallaby, this is a pademelon with a joey. It is very skitish and soon ran off.
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