Welcome to my 300th published blog post. The Vale of Belvoir is a sub-alpine area near Cradle Mountain. The Black Bluff Range looks over the Vale.

Wide angle image from Black Bluff Lookout with expansive views over sub-alpine areas to Cradle Mountain.

Cradle Mountain from Black Bluff

Barn Bluff from Black Bluff – I was totally bluffed.

Small lakes in the Vale of Belvoir

A bird of prey clutching a snake on a very cold morning.

Looking north-west to the Tarkine.

Mount Roland on the drive to the north coast.

Black Bluff from the Leven Canyon carpark – it took one and a quarter hours to drive from beyond that bluff to here in a big loop of 73km.

Eucalyptus and tree fern forest on the Leven canyon walk.

Uncurling Dicksonia fronds

Blackwood wattle

The wet sclerophyll forest supported many ferns and moss (below – sporing)

Jelly-like fungi

Heath plant above a cliff line

Cruickshanks Lookout at Leven Canyon is a dramatic view down 275 metres to the Leven Canyon below.

Penguin is one of the many towns along this coastline where penguins come ashore at night. Here is The Big Penguin…at Penguin, promoting a good cause.

Have you heard of the extinct species that used to cohabit with penguins? They were called pencilguins but were tragically erased.

Tardis Community Library near the Big Penguin – Who uses this?

Penguin also celebrates their feathered friends at every opportunity like these bins…

…and these traffic bollards. I think a knight drives the white car in the background.

Penguin Beer – a penguin walks into a pub and said, “Have you seen my brother?” The bartender said, “What does he look like?”

The full strength beer really makes the penguins waddle.

The signs to bird-themed locations. Chicken, Alaska was my favourite.

Penguin Uniting Church with unusual keyhole windows. It was locked when we were there.

Table Cape is a circular extinct volcano with a flat top rising steeply from Bass Strait. It was named by Matthew Flinders on his circumnavigation of Tasmania in 1798. This is the view east from Table Cape.

The Table Cape Lighthouse

Table Cape Tulip Farm is home to Van Diemen Quality Bulbs. They are a specialist flower bulb producers of tulips, liliums and Dutch iris. There is an annual Tulip Festival every October when the blooms are at their peak flowering. The perils of daylight saving – we arrived 2 hrs and 45 mins before sunset and it was already too late for entry. These are some views from the roadside.

Marriage counsellor: “Your wife says you never buy her flowers. Is this true?”

Husband: “To be honest, I never knew she sold flowers.”

Yellow-tailed black cockatoos

Butterfly at Table Cape in bushland.

Across on another road on Table Cape are Van Dieman Bulbs irises.

Female superb blue wrens were active on the ground near the irises.

The Nut at Stanley from Trewethies Lookout on the approach to town.

Stanley has a very old world atmosphere being colonially founded in 1826. Photos of the main street before and after an excellent dinner at The Stanley Hotel.