Tasmania Photography

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A still grey day from the Regatta grounds looking up the Derwent River towards the Tasman Bridge.
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A shell on the beach at Kelvedon Beach, East Coast of Tasmania. I picked this one because the sand is also marked from where the water has flowed off the shell and onto the sand.

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Looking up from the Gordon Dam, South West Tasmania. If i was bad with the heights looking down at the dam in my friday photo, i was even worse when standing on the dam. Out of the ten photos i took this was one of two in focus. And the worse bit, walking up the [...]

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The Elephant Pass is a narrow road between the coast North of Bicheno and St Mary’s. Large vehicles need to sound their horn so they don’t get stuck by a vehicle coming the other way

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A broken Winch sitting next to the boathouse on the point at Kelvedon Beach. This is the same boathouse that i featured earlier in the month/

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Rocks in Lake Pedder, South West Tasmania.

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This is the Gordon dam holding back the waters of Lake Gordon and spanning the Gordon River.
Some facts about the dam:
- Height 140 metres
- Length of Crest 198 metres
- Thickness at Base 17.7 metres
- Thickness at Crest 2.8 metres
- Volume of Concrete 154,000 cubic metres
- Volume of Water at Full Capacity – 12,450 million cubic [...]

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The Hazards in the Freycinet National Park. Always a great place to visit although it was windy unlike past times when the water has been still (like this post)

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Staying in the South West for Today’s picture is the McPartlan Pass Canal. As I mentioned previously Lake Pedder provides 44% of the water for the Gordon Power Station and this canal is the only link between the two lakes.
Interestingly enough, when Lake Gordon was flooded, the waters flooded into to small dams surrounding the [...]

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