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Overcast weather
with some rain predicted the next two days.
Nothing too bad eventuated. |
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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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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
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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
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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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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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