Cradle Mountain to Corinna.
We went for a walk before the Ranger Station opened. A small waterfall.
The Pencil Pine Falls.
A Tasminian Devil.
A side view of a Tasminian Devil.
A back view.
Where's my food?
The snactuary also had quolls...
...and you are very lucky to get a photo...my best of a bad bunch...
...but they would come and investigate...
...hoping for food...
...but would rarely be sideways on for a good photo.
Another type of quoll, the Spotted Tailed Quoll.
Another view.
And then it was a stop at Hellyer Gorge. There was Spanish Moss growing off the trees.
There were ferns in the temperate rain forest...
...with their new fronds unfurling...
...and a larger mature specimen.
By the roadside, there was a robin.
The waterfall in Waratah.
The Waratah Post Office.
Waratah is a former mining town with some mining paraphenalia adorning the streets.
nd next stop after lunch was at the Philosopher's FAlls, name after William Philosopher Smith. This isn't an unusual Australian animal, just an odd shaped fallen tree and moss.
The bridge over the river on our descent.
It was sometimes on a boardwalk but often along muddy paths.
There were 211 steps down to the viewing platform of the falls.
Finally, a close up of the falls....
...and a more distant view.
Then after a long drive along a gravel track just to empasis how deep we were in the middle of nowhere, we reached Corinna. There is a ferry across the river. There are no running times, it goes when there is a car or passengers to take across.
A pademelon helping the gardener to trim the bushes in the gardens in front of the Corinna Hotel in the Tarkines.
We had cabins for the night...the steps up to the porch of my cabin.
The porch...
...a view of some of the other cabins...
...an example of some of the industrial heritage of the town. We walked along the river bank in search of platypus. Whilst we saw ripples and something bobbing about in the water, we were not sure that we had any positive identification of a platypus.
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