Back in the big smoke and on the net - yeah!

GORDON RIVER here is a photo of the Gordon River from when we did a cruise the other day, it is just so tranquil and lush, the river is around 30 metres deep in parts.

KING RIVER GORGE This is one of the views as you travel along the railway line between Queenstown and Strahan, it follows the river and the line was cut into valleys earlier in the century.
TURNING OF THE ENGINES At the top of the gorge the engines are put on this turntable and manually turned and swapped over, we left from Queenstown and went up with the steam and then down to Strahan with a diesel engine.

QUEENSTOWN After leaving Strahan we went up to Zeehan and then across to Queenstown as the road from Strahan to Queenstown is very windy and narrow. We had a wander around the Queenstown museum which was very interesting. Unfortunately couldn't take any photos going up the hills out of there as no place to stop and it was pouring.

LAKE ST CLAIR man was it cold there, it was wet nearly all the way there from Queenstown, it is at the southern end of Cradle Mountain in the National Park, once the cloud lifted we could see why it was so cold, there was snow on them there mountains - Mt Rufus and Mt Olympus.

MT OLYMPUS As you can see the weather cleared and we got in the walks which was great. Fired up the air-con and fan heater, it was less than 10 degrees outside. As there had been a lot of rain we back tracked and had a look at Nelson Falls, only 35 metres but spectacular. The water everywhere is dark with tannin which comes from the button grass.

We are now in Hobart for five nights, Tasmania is so busy you have to book ahead, which we have done.