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Walls of Jerusalem Dixon's Kingdom Camp to Lake Adelaide - Via Lake Ball Hut |
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Day 2 - Wild Dog Creek Camp to
Dixon's Kingdom Camp: Side Trip to Mt Jerusalem |
Day Walks to Solomons Throne and The Temple |
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Day 4 - Dixons
Kingdom to Lake Adelaide Another misty morning with a chance of some rain. Not a big walk today so we left mid morning and walked to Lake Adelaide via Lake Ball Hut. The Lake Ball Hut has some interesting history. Compared to the relatively open country walking in the first 3 days, walking next to Lake Ball was a bit more difficult due to undulations in the track and many tree roots. Required some minor levels of concentration. It took around 3 hours to get to the new camp, including a good stop at Lake Ball Hut, and some relaxed walking with the kids. After setting up camp at Lake Adelaide we spent a considerable amount of time swimming in the lake, amazingly the water was quite bearable, not as cold as we expected. |
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| Overcast weather
with some rain predicted the next two days.
Nothing too bad eventuated. |
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| Panorama View - Click to expand | The valley next to Dixons Kingdom. | |
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| Packed up and
ready to walk to Lake Adelaide. |
Kids were fantastic the
whole trip. |
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| View of Solomons
Throne from Jaffa Vale valley. |
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| Interesting walk to
Lake Ball with a variety of terrains. |
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| Interesting
Pencil Pine tree forest. |
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| At the end of a short
forest walk the track opens up to the lake. |
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| Panorama View - Click to expand | Lake Ball - east end. | |
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| Arguably the walking
next to the lake is the more challenging part of the whole walk. Although it is not particularly difficult,
nor long. The track is a tad closed
in, with tree roots to negotiate, and some undulations. |
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| Lake Ball Hut has a
very interesting story. |
Lake Ball Hut. |
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| Minor difficulties to
negotiate, nothing that worried the children. |
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| Getting close to the
end of Lake Ball. |
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| An iconic little islad at the west end of Lake Ball. | ||
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| Iconic island. | The far end (western
end) of Lake Ball is spectacular. |
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| Western end of Lake
Ball. |
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| Spectacular views. | Looked manicured by an artist. | |
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| First half of
the walk between Lake Ball and Lake Adelaide. |
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| Very interesting rock
formations |
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| Gorgeous Tasmanian hardy
plants. |
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| The final
section to Lake Adelaide involves leaving the flats between the two lakes, a
climb up to a high point and a reasonable descent back down. |
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| Descending down to Lake Adelaide. |
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| Almost at Lake
Adelaide, where we camped. |
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| Lake Adelaide from the
beach at the campsite. |
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| Posing | Luckiest koala in
Tasmania. |
The two dots in the water are the boys enjoying a swim. |
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| Panorama View - Click to expand | Amazing echos from this spot. | |
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| The boys weren’t
deterred by the water temperature (which wasn’t overly cold on this
trip) |
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| Doing some yoga. |
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| There are no obvious
signs that this is the campsite.
I suspect they are building an official camp site some 500 metres
further along the track where they have built a toilet. Interesting that there was no water flowing
in the nearby creek (usually the nearby creek is flowing which has a platform
from which to collect water). Luckily
for us the toilet had a rain water tank that was full. |
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