It didn’t rain today! For the first day since arriving in Tasmania a week ago, it didn’t rain; in fact the sun shone and we felt warm. It seems incredible that in a few days driving and a ferry crossing, the climate changed from the extreme dry heat of the outback to weather similar to a bad summer in the Lake District. Still, no rain, no rain forest! Travelling east across Tasmania, we expected the weather to improve as it’s more protected from the Roaring Forties that blow across a vast ocean from South America. This is reflected in a change in the vegetation from rain forest to less dense eucalypt forests and open heath land.
We spent a very pleasant day walking from one lovely waterfall to another and through an area of the tallest hard-wood trees in the world, a species of eucalyptus endemic to Tasmania.
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