Leaving the Tasman

After leaving the Tasman peninsula we made our way to a small, pastoral campsite near the tiny village of Wayatinah. While driving  through the penninsula we drove by the charred remains of bush and homes.  Pictures of homes aren't posted out of respect for the owners.

Bushfire remains

 

 

En route through the penninsula we viewed the vistas and walked about Tasman's Arch,Tasman's Blow hole - which was only puffing a little during our brief stop over -

Tasmans Arch

 

The Lookout

Devils Kitchen

The Blowhole

Fossil Bay Lookout

and finally the tesselated pavement on the shoreline of Pirates Bay in the Tessalated Pavement State Reserve.

Tesselated pavement

We then turned to the interior and headed through a series of paddocks, hills and forests following the valley of the Derwent River to Mount Field National Park.

 Stopping for raspberries

There we walked to Russell Falls and Horseshoe Falls both of which were lovely small falls among the tropical tree-ferns of the forest.

Russell Falls

 Horseshoe Falls

We ended the day with tea and biscuits down by the lake at the Wayatinah campground after being genially advised by the proprietors to just park wherever we wished and the check out time the following day was "whenever ya want, we're pretty casual here".

 

 Wayatinah campground