Mt Field National Park is Tasmania's oldest, and is sometimes just known as "National Park". It is most famous for Russell Falls, nestled in the cool temperate rainforest beneath the mountains, but up higher there is alpine and sub-alpine vegetation in amongst the tarns and moraines that provide evidence of ancient glaciation.
Small tarn in front of Lake Dobson.
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ˆ Pandani (Richea pandanifolia) and pencil |
Ancient pencil pine skeleton on the alpine |
Small tarn near Lake Dobson. What struck me today was the bleak |
Base of Russell Falls (0.5 second time exposure). |
Eagle Tarn, with waratah (red flowers) on the right. |
ˆ Water plants growing in the soft mud of Eagle Tarn. |
There were so many beautiful "little things" ...
Bark on a snow gum. |
ˆ Fern frond from a tree fern |
New fronds of Gleichenia, one of my |
Dead Gleichenia with some new growth. This fern is nice and |
ˆ Moss and lichen growing on an old tree branch. |
Leaves of the myrtle (Nothofagus cunninghamii) in the sun; |
ˆ Top of the pandani plant (Richea pandanifolia). |
Spiraling ends of the pandani leaves. |
ˆ Pandani's annoyingly prickly little brother, Richea scoparia. |
Link to a second page of photos (flowers mostly).
Photos taken by Helen Chick.