21 August 2017, Overland Track, Tasmania

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This was another long day, not as brutal as the previous one, but the weather had closed in.

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It’s not long ago but my memory is hazy (much like the weather).  I remember that this was a day of continuous rain and the next day was snowing all day but from the images it looks as though it were the other way around.

Consequently I took very few photographs on either day because keeping my equipment dry was an issue – just ten on this day and nine on the next.

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Here we are walking through open eucalypt heathland…

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… and this is myrtal beech rainforest with I think a myrtal beech on the right.

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It looks like rain here and I furtively poked the camera out to try to capture a feel of the context.

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Lots of snow in many places but the terrain was more gentle and no falling off the boardwalks any more.

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Plants grow wherever they can in the rainforest…

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… and even a clump of lichen may have snow on top of it.

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Laying down to spend a night at a random place along the trail would not have been the best of ideas, but we had the great luxury of wonderful meals cooked for us, hot showers and a drying room every night.

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