![]() ![]() A grey day and it's our 50th wedding
anniversary! Our bus left Queenstown at 8am and stopped for
morning tea at Tullah. Once a silver-lead mining town,
after closure in 1974 and in 1976 homes were constructed to house workers on local hydro-electric power
schemes but it now appeared disserted and many shops
vacant. Roseberry Lake, formed by a
dam was a popular fishing location and offered amazing
reflections in its dark tannin-stained water.
![]() On to Cradle
Mountain, a World Heritage area which has Mt Ossa,Tasmania's highest
mountain includes Lake St Clair Australia's deepest freshwater lake.
This, Tasmania's best-known national park covers more than 1260
square kilometres. We are met by a guide at Dove lake This 2 km
long glacial lake has a 7.5 km very popular wilderness walk around the
lake. A gentle drizzle descended... and we follow the walkway to the
water's edge - sadly the mountain's grandeur is shrouded in
mist.
![]() At Sheffield we stop to admire the
murals on walls throughout the town before we reach our Hotel,
"The Beachfront Voyager" at Burnie where a surf competition was in
progress.
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