“Buenos días, saludos desde Stanley!“

A receding hare

I walked part way up the Nut with an unwell travelling companion remaining at the car. We then took a short drive up a valley to Mawbanna.

We must be getting close to the honey farm. This guy is over 20 years old.

Blue Hills Honey at Mawbanna – source of prized leatherwood honey from The Tarkine wilderness. We had previously bought their products online.

The sample pots

Bee-utiful stained glass window

My kind of people.

Dip Falls cascading over columnar-jointed basalt.

Ferny understorey

Dip Falls from the other side

Looking into the gorge below the falls with cool temperate rainforest.

The short walk to the Big Tree

Giant moss (Dawsonia)

The Big Tree with a height of 62m and a circumference at the bottom of 17m. 

Black currawongs were plentiful.

Herding a straggler

We were caught up for a while at Detention River. Oddly, no-one in the roadhouse knew why it was called that.

The road into Rocky Cape. Rocky Cape National Park has striking rock formations along the coastline, a variety of flowering plants and important Aboriginal heritage.

Leptospermum

The rocks of Rocky Cape are among the oldest in Tasmania. These ancient Precambrian quartzites have been uplifted and folded to produce contorted patterns. 

Melaleuca

Jagged rocks

Zieria

North Cave – a large cave almost filled with shells, bones and other remains resulting from thousands of years of Aboriginal occupation.

We have seen this plant right across the north – still to identify

The Rocky Cape coast on a showery cold afternoon

The higher hills at Rocky Cape

An echidna crosses the road and seeks refuge

Not sure if it was monitoring me or sniffing for ants.

Periscope up!

Many farms have a sculpture of some sort near their gate. We saw Super Duck and many oddly dressed mannequins in the past days. This is a solid entry in the field made from old tractor parts. Extra points for the Hi-Vis.

The Wynyard Waterfront Motel is not a misnomer!

Channel markers in the motel carpark.