2nd August 10
8th August 10
It finally genuinely rained all night and day cutting some roads and getting dry rivers running again and had a small amount of back-up rain on the following day. This means we should be able to visit Russell Falls (reputedly the most photographed waterfall in Tasmania), Horseshoe Falls and Lady Barron Falls which are on the same three hour circuit, and see them with some water falling. During the high winds that came with the rain, one of the wind turbines on the roof of the Harbour building started to break-up, a week after I filmed them, and only about four weeks after installation.
22nd August 10
The weather since the 13th has been rainy, although not persistent, or very cold and windy which didn’t entice us to visit Russell Falls but we did go into Hobart on the bus to cast an early vote in the elections. There was some snow on Mt Wellington on the 20th August which remained until this morning which meant that snow would have fallen on Mt Field in the Mt Field National Park where Russell Falls happen to be, plus being an hour drive West means there would have been more rain there than we received in Hobart in the last week, so today being a dry sunny day it was our chance for the long awaited visit.
From here we climbed the 100 plus steps to the top of Russell Falls and then continued on for about 15 minutes to Horseshoe Falls, which being on the same water course had the same amount of water flowing over it
We then headed through the tall tree walk and on to Lady Baron Falls, about an hour walk away on another water course, along a good track but unfortunately had several uphill bits as a result of downhill bits, but we made it in a slightly longer time frame than the younger visitors.
One of them appeared to have jogged in whilst we sat and had our lunch prior to the hike back to the visitor centre, supposedly a 40 minute walk on a slight downhill gradient. The Falls had plenty of water, like the others, but as with all waterfalls had its own personality.
The slight downhill gradient was actually an undulating gradient that eventually took us to the bottom of a wooden staircase which just happened to have 260 steps in it, and fortunately some built in seats at convenient places. On arrival at the top we found that the track continued uphill quite steeply for another hundred metres or so before heading downhill for another ten minutes to the visitor centre. I guess that any exercise that you survive has to eventually have been good for you, but is that fact or only theory. Either way we did survive and thoroughly enjoyed the sights and our day out, even if we do suffer tomorrow.
We had to go into Hobart to hand in some papers to Centrelink so took the opportunity to visit Salamanca Square for some more photos and a look in some of the art galleries, and also moved on to the harbour to photograph some more statues in that area.
8th August 10
Merry has spent many hours this week slaving over a hot sewing machine making covers for the seats in the caravan to help preserve then. They were professionally treated with Vantec, which is much the same as Scotchguard, but Diane gave us some surplus material so the covers have been made to protect the seats from dirty little dog paws. Merry also made a cover for the satellite dish for when it is placed on the bed during transit and a bag for the fold-up clothes hoist for when it is stored in the shower during transit and will be making some storage bags for Barry’s spanners to separate metric ones from Imperial ones. Meanwhile Barry has fitted several additional shelves into cupboards to improve storage in the caravan.
12th August 10
It finally genuinely rained all night and day cutting some roads and getting dry rivers running again and had a small amount of back-up rain on the following day. This means we should be able to visit Russell Falls (reputedly the most photographed waterfall in Tasmania), Horseshoe Falls and Lady Barron Falls which are on the same three hour circuit, and see them with some water falling. During the high winds that came with the rain, one of the wind turbines on the roof of the Harbour building started to break-up, a week after I filmed them, and only about four weeks after installation.
22nd August 10
The weather since the 13th has been rainy, although not persistent, or very cold and windy which didn’t entice us to visit Russell Falls but we did go into Hobart on the bus to cast an early vote in the elections. There was some snow on Mt Wellington on the 20th August which remained until this morning which meant that snow would have fallen on Mt Field in the Mt Field National Park where Russell Falls happen to be, plus being an hour drive West means there would have been more rain there than we received in Hobart in the last week, so today being a dry sunny day it was our chance for the long awaited visit.
Russell Falls is about a ten minute walk on bitumen track from the visitors centre and thanks to the rain and melting snow had plenty of water, in fact maybe too much as it cause a lot of spray which didn’t help the photos with moisture on the lens. We were told that up until the rain, there had only been a narrow strip of water on the left hand side.
From here we climbed the 100 plus steps to the top of Russell Falls and then continued on for about 15 minutes to Horseshoe Falls, which being on the same water course had the same amount of water flowing over it
We then headed through the tall tree walk and on to Lady Baron Falls, about an hour walk away on another water course, along a good track but unfortunately had several uphill bits as a result of downhill bits, but we made it in a slightly longer time frame than the younger visitors.
One of them appeared to have jogged in whilst we sat and had our lunch prior to the hike back to the visitor centre, supposedly a 40 minute walk on a slight downhill gradient. The Falls had plenty of water, like the others, but as with all waterfalls had its own personality. 
The slight downhill gradient was actually an undulating gradient that eventually took us to the bottom of a wooden staircase which just happened to have 260 steps in it, and fortunately some built in seats at convenient places. On arrival at the top we found that the track continued uphill quite steeply for another hundred metres or so before heading downhill for another ten minutes to the visitor centre. I guess that any exercise that you survive has to eventually have been good for you, but is that fact or only theory. Either way we did survive and thoroughly enjoyed the sights and our day out, even if we do suffer tomorrow.
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