Tazmania (it’s in Australia!) and Russell Falls

 

We started our big Australia/New Zealand trip in Tasmania and most of our fellow travellers actually started a few days later in Melbourne or Sydney.  One natural feature that caught our attention in our Australia literature was Russell Falls in Tasmania….so we decided to go there.  the falls are about 2 hours from Hobart, where we were staying for a couple of nights. So we rented a car---and the trip almost ended right there!  They drive on the “wrong” side of the road—and live to tell about it.  It was a very long two hours to the falls and back, but we made it and captured a few photos.  I offer these two photos in case you are interested.  I worked so hard to get them, and I couldn’t resist sharing..

Russell Falls in Tasmania—February 15, 2014—It was a nice hike to get to, but well worth it. Since this was at the end of Summer there, I imagine that water flow was about at its lowest.  I can just imagine these beautiful falls with more water!

Horseshoe Falls in Tasmania—February 15, 2014 – This smaller falls is just up from Russell falls and feeds into it.  There is actually a third falls up further but water flow was low enough to make that one uninteresting—so I took no pictures of it. But Horseshoe Falls was flowing nicely but showing the effect of low water, like Russell Falls. 

Australia and New Zealand are beautiful and very picturesque, as I hope this blog points out.  More to come!

Alan

Ayers Rock and the Olgas at Sunset and Sunrise

 

I love reliving trips by going back through the photos and touching them up for printing and/or sending to friends!  I plan to relive our trip to Australia and New Zealand for as long as I can get away with it…or until we take another one with photos to play with..

Some local photographer in the Ayers Rock area had creatively put together a picture that was made of three photos showing the dramatic color changes of Ayers Rock as the sun either rose or set it (can’t remember which series he showed now).  I’d like to give the person credit—so I’ll have to give the accolades to a nameless person…and I’ll probably use this layout again, too. 

So, here it is—three pictures to remind you od the trip—these are in jpeg format since that was easy to put together for sending.  The collage was made in Word, so now the 3 photos on each page are not individual photos, but, as with anything else I send out, I freely offer the original digital photos or the Word document I made to get the 3 photo layout.  I don’t plan to copyright anything, so feel free to share these with your friends and family.

Ayers Rock at Sunset—February 20, 2014  ( just before we had that fine Barbeque under the stars)

 

Ayers Rock at Sunrise—February 21, 2014—Some of the people didn’t quite get up in time to make it to this one, so for them, this might be a new sight from the trip..

 

The Olgas at Sunset--February 21, 2014—Didn’t have to go far to get this set of photos since the Olgas are very close to Ayers Rock.

 

I apologize to the locals near the Rocks for not using the “real” names of the two features above…didn’t take me long to get back to my Idaho ways..

Ayers Rock—Uluru

The Olgas—Kata Tjuta

I hope everyone has recovered from the big trip—and busy planning the next one!!

Alan