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(136 votes) Published: Jan 10, 2007 10:56 p.m. In 2 Favorites Lists Viewed 550 times
Ok, I posted this in the forums first but people seemed to like it enough so here it is again, but in egg form!
I fixed the first picture as well, had the wrong link last time.
I went on holiday to Tasmania with family before Christmas, the day we got there the bush fires in Scamander and St Mary’s started and that was exactly where we were going because the weather on the west coast was pretty rough. And I didn’t bother resizing so don’t bitch if you have dial-up(or If I stretched the page).
First, Informative shots of the bush fires (informative = crap, but you get the picture, hehe).
On the first day we camped out at a bay that I can’t remember the name of.
What a welcoming sight.
A close-up of the strange billowing kind of smoke.
The second day we couldn’t get through Scamander because a power pole had been burnt through at the base and was sitting in the middle of the road suspended by the wires.
Going into Scamander, really smoky.
The burnt power pole. It’s up the back on the corner.
On the other side of the cop car that stopped us it was all burnt out.
Going back to St Helens through St Mary’s, there was a small fire in St Marys as you can see.
FIRETRUCK!
As close as the road got to the fire in St Mary’s, I’m glad that wasn’t my house, it would have smelled of smoke for months.
We stayed overnight at St Helens and went to the beach and look out.
The rock pools.
Smoke cloud near St Helens from the lookout.
The next day we got through and went down to the Freycinet national park.
There is four rocky hills like that all lined up, I think the first one is Mt amos, dunno about the rest.
Coles bay.
If you have ever seen those pamphlets advertising Wineglass bay, it’s always sunny and beautiful, but if we go there it looks like this.
Now sit down kids, I’m going to tell you a story about Wineglass bay. We went on a kayaking tour thing, and at morning tea one of the guides asked, does anyone know what kind of wine they thought Wineglass bay looked like when they named it? One guy said Cyan or something, and the guide said no, it was rouge. Because they did a lot of whaling there and all the blood made the water a light pink colour.
After that we drove down past Hobart.
View from a rest stop.
There was a little forest walk we went on, big ferns.
We got down to… I’ve forgotten where but it was very far south, and went on the Tahune Air walk.
View from the end of the walk, on the Cantilever or whatever it’s called, the water was a tea colour from the oil in the leaves.
Ferny things on a different walk in the same area.
Big f*cking tree, 400 years old and16 meters around the base, it was alive when Captain Cook founded Australia, and I sat on it.
a creek in a forest, I can’t remember where but it was somewhere in this part of the trip.
Then we stayed a night at lake St Clair, but it was cold and wet so the next day we traveled down through Queenstown and stayed at Strahan.
Mist rolling off the hills in the morning on the way to Queenstown.
Queenstown is known for having a lunar like landscape. It looks like this because of all the mining they do. They use lots of sulfur for some reason in the mining, to extract copper or something, and in the process make sulfuric acid which falls as rain and has destroyed most vegetation in the area. Basically, its a shit hole.
Anyway, we got to Strahan and stayed for two days.
This is a really windy beach near hells gates, you can see the sand drifting along the beach, it was really weird, it looked a bit like water.
View from a lookout near by.
The entrance to the port was called hells gates because it was small, rocky, windy and very dangerous for those old sailing ships. They had to wait for days for the wind to go their way before trying to get through. Once when one was waiting it was boarded by escaped convicts.
Well there is more pictures but this is too long already.
I think 24 homes were lost in the fires, I didn’t take any photo’s out of respect for them.
Ja 11, 2007 2:59 am - wow, ive been to wineglass bay and was at that exact lookout where you took that pic.
i went to tassie last year but it was the worst holiday ever, because i got the sickest ive ever been in my life. but any 5*s because these are really good pictures.
Jan 11, 2007 10:19 am - Exploration eggs are so overrated Your skill with a camera simply amazes me.
Unfortunetly, I have a strong distaste for exploration eggs. Shitloads of picturess...that is generally the extent, which is nothing really that amazing.
Jan 11, 2007 11:00 am - I gave it a five simply because there are many images that you could use as a desktop background on here. Some very good pictures.
Jan 12, 2007 3:18 am - For everyone complaining about no pics of Tassie devils, let me tell you; I have never ever seen a Tassie Devil in Tassie. And I have lived her for 13 years. The only time I have ever seen a Tassie Devil was in a zoo in Western Australia
Jan 15, 2007 4:22 pm - haha queenstown i the biggest hole we went there 2 years ago and laughed our heads off, is nevboy a two head? all the other tasmanians are.
chers
rolf
oh yeh 5*
an the nly tassie devils we saw were roadkill, we flipped one over and got a pic of it
Jan 16, 2007 12:33 am - yay. tasmania 5* cause i live there and i like the pics.
J0hnnySick0 i will be long dead before i recognise tasmania as part of australia. and im nt a two head, iv got three.
Jan 25, 2007 4:47 am - yea i got some mates that live in scamander really dissapointing for most people up there every second person grows weed and the bush was full of plantations that burnt down. one of my mates had a shed that was about 5m fromt he fire had a commy in there everything meltable on it melted adn their surf boards were a pile of fibre glass.
some nice pics though.
5* for representing my home bruh
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