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I really like this picture just as a picture! The colours here are a little more true to what they were in real life... brilliant turquoise blue water and white, white sand. We picked up a zillion shells on the beach - they will be an interesting challenge to get home in one piece!
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This is Russell Falls in Mount Field National Park. Apparently the water is usually much lower than how we saw the falls... all the postcards in the shops show graceful little trickles falling over the rocks. But there had been nothing but rain, rain, rain for the whole week before we got to the Park - so the waterfall was raging! This was another difficult image to catch - there was so much spray coming off the waterfall that I didn't want my digital camera exposed for too long... and there was so much lush green growth around the falls that it was hard to show how tall they were. The entire vertical space in this picture has moving water in it.
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This is a Swamp Gum, the tallest-growing hardwood trees on earth. This sucker was something like 90m tall. Imagine walking through a forest filled with these - I spent a lot of time with my neck stretched, looking way, way up. I was happy when we found this tree standing somewhat on its own, free of surrounding foliage, so I could take a picture. The trunk of this tree at its base was probably as big around as a small car. At least.
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Jen and I posed for a picture on the alpine moors on near the summit of Mount Field. This picture was taken maybe a 25 minute drive from the previous two shots. We drove our trusty car Bruce up the mountain - we didn't have time to hike up and I'm not sure my knees would've liked the hike anyway. We were astonished at the sudden changes in ecosystems as we drove up the mountain. We started in lush rainforest (like the picture with the waterfall), then into drier, more open forest (like the picture with the swamp gum, but the trees weren't quite so big), then short scrubby trees, then this - all in the space of a 20 minute drive. Incredible.
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I really like this picture just as a picture! The colours here are a little more true to what they were in real life... brilliant turquoise blue water and white, white sand. We picked up a zillion shells on the beach - they will be an interesting challenge to get home in one piece!.JPG)
This is Russell Falls in Mount Field National Park. Apparently the water is usually much lower than how we saw the falls... all the postcards in the shops show graceful little trickles falling over the rocks. But there had been nothing but rain, rain, rain for the whole week before we got to the Park - so the waterfall was raging! This was another difficult image to catch - there was so much spray coming off the waterfall that I didn't want my digital camera exposed for too long... and there was so much lush green growth around the falls that it was hard to show how tall they were. The entire vertical space in this picture has moving water in it..JPG)
This is a Swamp Gum, the tallest-growing hardwood trees on earth. This sucker was something like 90m tall. Imagine walking through a forest filled with these - I spent a lot of time with my neck stretched, looking way, way up. I was happy when we found this tree standing somewhat on its own, free of surrounding foliage, so I could take a picture. The trunk of this tree at its base was probably as big around as a small car. At least..JPG)
Jen and I posed for a picture on the alpine moors on near the summit of Mount Field. This picture was taken maybe a 25 minute drive from the previous two shots. We drove our trusty car Bruce up the mountain - we didn't have time to hike up and I'm not sure my knees would've liked the hike anyway. We were astonished at the sudden changes in ecosystems as we drove up the mountain. We started in lush rainforest (like the picture with the waterfall), then into drier, more open forest (like the picture with the swamp gum, but the trees weren't quite so big), then short scrubby trees, then this - all in the space of a 20 minute drive. Incredible. 
