Queenstown
general, tasmania :: posted on February 4th, 2010
I’m just back from a trip to Queenstown on the West Coast of Tasmania. It is a dramatic drive across the mountain ranges to get there, and made all the more dramatic by the bushfires that were dominating the news. The smoke enclosed the ranges and sank into the valleys.
One stop along the drive was the beautiful Nelson Falls. The forest of leatherwood trees mixed into the temperate rainforest were in full bloom and the air was filled with a hum of bees as they worked their magic amongst the spectacular white petals which were raining down in gentle drifts gathering on top of ferns and cast across the forest floor. Just beautiful!
What a contrast entering Queenstown! The hills surrounding this mining town were laid bare by the ravages of harsh past mining practices, but the regrowth is now establishing itself with a vengeance and it is possible to imagine the forest I had just left eventually covering the steep slopes.
More to come!
