Tarkine Wilderness, North West Tasmania, 20 October 2023
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Today we drive from Arthur River to Stanley via the Tarkine Wilderness.

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View of Arthur River from Sumac Lookout.

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View from Kanunnah Bridge.

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View from Kanunnah Bridge (other direction).

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Arthur River near the Kanunnah Bridge.

Note how the shrubs on the little island and the far bank are almost horizontal.  There must be some serious floods through here at times.

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Lake Chisholm Forest Walk (and next nine images).

“A picturesque short walk through ‘mixed forest’ of giant eucalypts and rainforest species”.

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A notice board describes Lake Chisholm as “one of the finest examples of a flooded sinkhole in Australia” .

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A miniature world, probably on a fallen log.

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Ferns and giant trees.

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Dempster Plains.

These are buttongrass plains, created by Aboriginal burning off in the interests of hunting animals such as wallabies, wombats, bandicoots, possums, lizards and emus.

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Trowutta Arch Walk.

We are in “callidendrous rainforest”, with an understory of ferns (dicksonia antarctica) and the dominant tree species is myrtle beech (nothofagus cunninghamii), which may grow up to 50 metres high and live for 500 years.  So, essentially, Gondwanaland rainforest.

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And it’s not just the rainforest.  This is the Trowutta Arch.

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Funghi on a fallen log.

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