The Reserve in Winter - A Walk Along Tasmania's Overland Track - July 2009

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Page 6 - Pine Valley and the Du Cane Range



Above - Su Li on duckboard over a section of sphagnum bog on the track to Pine Valley



Above - Pandani



Above - Eucalypts



Above - Su Li in Pine Valley



Above - Fungi



Above - Bog near the Pine Valley Hut helipad. If you cross this bog - there are often good views, but not this day.

Day 8



Above - This was quite a wet and windy day - so we stayed close to Pine Valley Hut. This photo shows Cephisus Falls



Above - King Billy Pine needles



Above and below - small creeks





Above - Cephisus Creek - high water



Above - Cephisus Creek



Above - This shrub looks like the hybrid between Pandani and Scoparia that sometimes occurs

Day 9



Above - More photo-pfaffing. Chuin Nee (the "click, click, zoom girl") in action



Above - Mt Gould and the Minotaur



Above - We climbed up onto the Acropolis Plateau. Here we look at the headwall of the Acropolis. The summit is the left most pinnacle of the ridge on the right.



Above - It started snowing



Above - Bad weather over the Du Cane Range





Above - Duckboard



Above - We continued as far as this nice grove of Pandanis





Above - More snow flurries





Above - Chuin Nee and Su Li



Above - We then spent some time photo-pfaffing on the Acropolis Plateau









Above - The Parthenon



Above - The Minotaur





Above - jelly fungi



Above - Pandani



Above - Pandani



Above - John and Chuin Nee back in Pine Valley



Above - Pine Valley







Above and below - Cephisus Creek





Above - Unbranched coral fungi



Above - our peace and quite  was somewhat disturbed by the arrival of 16 schoolgirls and 3 outdoor ed instructors at the Pine Valley Hut

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