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A trip to Tasmania, early 2021
Maggi Young:
Alan Ayton, from Victoria in Australia is very enthusiastic about the flora of Tasmania. He and his wife visited and hiked the Overland Track through the heart of Tasmania’s wilderness back in December 2019. They saw some incredible scenery and endemic flora,and Alan posted many times about the things they saw on that trip on his Facebook page ... https://www.facebook.com/alan.ayton.5
He also posts about the flora encountered on trips on "mainland" Australia!
Earlier this year they visitied Tasmania again , this time to hike in the Cradle Moutnain area - and he shares his photos of the trip here. It's quite a trip - only a short break, but Alan took loads of photos!
May take me a while to get them all posted! but - MANY Thanks for sharing, Alan!
Tasmania, you are looking oh so fine!
Tasmania-Meander Falls
A truly magnificent waterfall on the Meander river that tumbles down off the Great Western Tier. Raging water certainly helped by lots of rain the night before we visited. The track in was a 2 1/2 hour battle in over numerous flooded creek crossings that don’t normally exist, a track in many sections that were fast running creeks or massive still deep puddles, finding alternate routes or even using downed tree trunks to crawl/walk over, hanging onto trees to cross a raging creek, a climb over the route of 457m. In all a magical experience to see a great waterfall.
Tasmania-Meander Falls, ‘The Track’ in to see the Falls
There was a lot of water about the route !
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Tasmania-Meander Falls, ‘The Track’ in to see the Falls
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Flora of Tasmania
Gaultheria hispida
Snow Berry
An erect, much branched shrub up to 2m tall, much smaller in exposed conditions. The midrib of the leaves and branchlets have reddish bristles, leaves are ellipse to lance shaped, 4-8cm in length. Small white urn shaped flowers in terminal or axillary groups. White sepals enclose the reddish capsule giving the appearance of a white berry. Tasmanian endemic found in alpine heath and alpine sedgeland and at lower altitudes as well.
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Trochocarpa cunninghamii
Flat Heath
A spreading shrub, leaves oval shaped with a point about 10mm long, arranged in two opposite rows. Young shoots have a covering of dense short hairs. Pink flowers in a crowded terminal spike. Found in the understory of coniferous heath, heath and deciduous heath, alpine sedgeland , rainforests and subalpine forests in the western and central mountains. A Tasmanian endemic.
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Impressive boulder/scree fields in the Meander conservation area under the Great Western Tiers
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