Central Plateau of Tasmania Walk - 15 - 25 January 2017

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Page 1 - Higgs Track - Lady Lake - Lake Nameless - Lake Gwendy



Above - Outside Lady Lake Hut is this beautiful Patterned peat bog. The pools are called Flarks and the Land between them are called Strings (or Strangs)



Above - Richea scoparia



Above - Tasmanian Waratah - Telopea truncata



Above - Flarks and strings



Above - My sister and her husband walking between the flarks



Above - Flarks and strings



Above - Scoparia garden



Above - Bennetts Wallaby - Macropus rufogriseus





Above - Near Lady Lake







Above - Lady Lake













Above - Flarks



Above - Scoparia garden near Lake Weston



Above - Scoparia garden near Lake Nameless



Above - Lake Nameless



Above - Scoparia garden











Above - Cushion plants and Alpine Coral-fern (Gleichenia alpina)



Above - The beautiful alpine environment



Above - Cushion plants and Alpine Coral-fern (Gleichenia alpina)



Above - one of the many lakes on the Plateau



Above - perhaps Lichenomphalia sp



Above - More alpine lakes and tarns



Above - Pineapple Grass - Astelia alpina



Above - Cushion plants and Alpine Coral-fern (Gleichenia alpina)





Above - Lake Lexie and Mt Jerusalem



Above - Looking northwest into the area desolated by bushfires the previous summer. It looks like some stands of pencil pines escaped the fire, but most of the burnt areas seem to show little regeneration.



Above - My camp at Lake Gwendy



Above - Lake Gwendy















Above - The Milky Way and the two Magellanic Clouds. With airglow or perhaps a weak aurora? This photo was taken about 10:30 pm shortly before the moon rise.

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