Snow Skiing Bushwalking in Tasmania - by Dallas Stott Lake Pedder
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Dove Lake and Marions Lookout at Cradle Mountain. The orange vegetation is Fagus, Tasmania's only native deciduous beech. Its leaves are normally green, but turn a beautiful yellow-orange in autumn.
Beth has spotted some Fagus at Lake Wilks. The Scott-Kilvert Memorial Hut was built at Cradle Mountain for bushwalkers' safety in memory of a teacher and a student from Riverside High School in Tasmania, both of whom tragically died of hypothermia during a snowstorm at Cradle Mountain.
Sunrise on Mt Geryon (Grant Dixon) Barn Bluff (Peter Dombrovski)
Tasmanian Bushwalking Links
Snow Reports Walks in Tasmania Bushwalking Organisations Bushwalking Safely
About Tasmania Tasmania Online Focus on Tasmania Life in Tasmania
Cradle Mountain - Lake St Clair National Park
Tasmanian National Parks and Wildlife Service
Blundstone 'Blunnie' Bushwalking Boots (208)
An Encounter with a Tasmanian Tiger
Tassie mountains I have climbed with The Launceston Walking Club
Eldon Peak (Leader) Frenchmans Cap Mt Anne Cradle Mountain (photo above)
Mt Maria Geryon North Peak (photo above) Mt Murchison Mt Roland
Adamsons Peak Mt Owen Mt Picton Ben Lomond Pelion East
Millers Bluff Mt Hyperion Falling Mountain Mt Eliza Mt Lloyd Jones
Frankland Peak (Lake Pedder) Mt Strzelecki Stacks Bluff Quamby Bluff
West Wall Bishop & Clerk Hartz Mt Little Horn Mt Cuvier Mt Pillinger
Mt Snowy Mt Storey Mt Tim Shea Mt Victoria Black Bluff Wylds Craig
SOME FILMS MADE IN THE TASMANIAN BUSH
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Do You Know Tasmania is a most enjoyable presentation of films and slides on bushwalking in Tasmania made by members of The Launceston Walking Club Inc.
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The $50 million US mini-series Noah's Ark was filmed in the Ben Lomond National Park, starring Hollywood actors Jon Voight (Deliverance) and Mary Steenburgen (Parenthood).
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Segments of the ABC-TV series The Human Journey were filmed on Mount Wellington and at Kingston Beach near the capital city of Hobart.
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The Walking
with Dinosaurs program
shown on ABC-TV (Sunday 7/11/99 in Australia) was partly filmed in Tasmania, in the
Cradle Mountain - Lake St Clair National Park.
David Attenborough and the BBC crew filmed the scenes there, because of the
ground-crawling conifers and pencil pines which were around in the dinosaur age, and
because there were no flowering plants around in the Triassic-Jurassic period.
Tasmania and parts of South America are the only places in the world which suited the filming of Walking
with Dinosaurs. Fossil evidence dating back 50 million years showed parts of Tasmania retained a very close similarity to the dinosaur age and was used because of its natural beauty and the feel of the place.
The first BBC crew that filmed the series in Tasmania were confined to tents for 3 weeks in pouring rain before they could roll a film - and then it snowed. I'm sure some of the people who have worked on the Launceston Walking Club's presentation Do You Know Tasmania can relate to that.