Tuesday, July 8, 2008

Day 4 - Ben Lomond

Finally some SUNSHINE!

We sent Angus outside in the cold to take photos of the house and the view of the Tamar Vally from the house. It doesn't look that bright in the photos but believe me it's the brightest morning we've had so far.


Tamar River looking downstream



Glimpses of Launceston from the balcony



House from the street



Then it was off to Ben Lomond to find some snow. Tasmania's only ski field is sbout an hour's drive away from Launceston but at just over 1500m above sea level there's not a lot of snow around. In fact we discovered that the road to the village (at the summit) was closed during weekdays for roadworks! We still had fun at a deserted scout campsite on the northern face of the mountain where we discovered :-


some tiny pockets of melting snow!



more snow!



wallabies!



a snowman!



a wombat!



and more snow!


The views of the dolarite rock formation were pretty spectacular as well!


View from the west approaching the mountain road



North face from the campsite

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