The Colors Of Tasmania Landscapes

Well all good things must come to a end at some point. I arrived back home very late on thursday evening after hiking around Tasmania for 10 days with my brother. We visited some amazing places from lush rainforests to white sandy beaches with crystal clear blue water and some mountain regions in-between.

The first thing that impressed me and well my brother as well was the quality of the food. My god their beef is just sensational and leaves the tough boot leather we get here in Western Australia in the dark ages, only the meat from Mondo’s butchers in Inglewood gets close, but still lacks the flavour of Tasmanian beef by a mile.

We feasted at every opportunity we could find on local foods, from the freshly shucked Oysters right there in front of us with just a squeeze of lemon to home cooked pepper steak pie that just rocked, to the farm fresh eggs that actually had taste and the bacon, dont get me stated on the bacon … The food in Tasmania alone is enough to get me back there …

But it was not all a gastronomes delight we had several mornings of porridge by the tent in -5 degree snow weather and tinned spaghetti on bread for dinner.

In between we found time to do some hiking with around a total of 50+km’s completed with our longest hike being 16km’s on a trial you could hardly call a trail unless you had a machete and another really pleasant 11km hike over a mountain ridge and around another mountain on the way back to camp … Cheers Casey for joining us on the hike I had a great day and was so charged after the hike … We did many smaller hikes in between and really loved being out in the elements although very cold, it was totally worth it as virtually no one was around. We did bump into Andrew Denton briefly one morning and passed Neil Perry in our travels. Andrew being one of my favorite Australian comedians and Neil Perry being one of our finest Chefs in Australia …

Thanks to Casey Smith who we spent a day with when we arrived and then a couple of days with Casey at the very end of the trip … We both enjoyed your company Casey and I look forward to seeing your results when they come back from the lab …

While I had thought about posting up one of the panoramic landscape images I have of Cradle Mountain as the first post but really we have all seen a million of them from pretty much the same angle, which surprised me when I was there and actually saw the spots most take their images from … I thought I would go with some thing different for the first post, no farms, no mountains and no beaches, my first post is closer to what originally inspired me to go to Tasmania in the first place … Peter Dombrovkis a legend in Tasmanian Wilderness Photography … I was SO LUCKY to see some of his original work up close in a couple of galleries while I was in Tasmania …

Well enough banter, here is my first image from Tasmania … I hope you enjoy the serene colors and tranquil feeling of this image. Walking alone this morning it was a pleasure to stop breath in and take my time at this location …

Ancient Wilderness

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