On Saturday morning we went into town for the Anzac Day Parade and then headed towards the Gondola. We walked up the track that leads from the gondola base building to a bit above the restaurant at the top, with Max, Fin and Morgan. Fin took a nice photo of the two of us in the "frame" they have erected up the top (much the same as the ones around Auckland).
On Sunday we woke up to discover it had mostly stopped raining, so headed out again, this time to Mt Crichton Scenic Reserve. This is an area of Beech Forest just off the Glenorchy Road, near to Lake Dispute where we walked a couple of weeks ago (about 10 minutes out of town).The track is a loop track, marked as "2-4 hours" but we must be getting fitter or something as we churned it out in 1 hour and 40 minutes... yay for Weight Watchers! We even stopped to take a few photos:
These first 2 photos are of an old miner's hut now used by hunters and other trampers (the reserve is on the border of a restricted hunting area). We were amazed at how well looked after the hut was, and how much respect is shown by all who visit it. There are numerous old mining tools hanging up outside the hut - they'd be worth a bit of money, but everyone leaves them for everyone else to enjoy. It's great!
People do still stay in the hut - although we think we'd bring our own bedrolls.... the matresses are almost old enough to be the originals from 100 years ago.
Just past the hut we came across this waterfall... AaaaHhhhhh!!
And these toadstools - which were the size of bread and butter plates. Everything else in a beech forest is brown or green so they stood out miles away.
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Barb says -I particularly love the toadstools. I haven't seen any like those since the days of "the fairy dell in my enchanted forest" when I was a child......in the pine trees behind Cornwallis Beach in the August holidays....nearly 60 years ago. Sorry Greg.
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