Montezuma Falls

Just outside Rosebery is a fine little historic bushwalk that yields maximum scenic bang for your energy input buck. It's the walk along an old tramway route, to Montezuma Falls - one of the highest in Tasmania.








I'd mistakenly thought it was an uphill walk, and probably muddy and a bit arduous. But it's anything but. It's almost dead flat, takes an hour and a bit each way, and it's extremely scenic and rainforesty.

You get to cross over a fine new swingbridge, from which there's an excellent view of the waterfall.













I started fairly early in the day, which was probably a good idea. The walk is very popular with tourists and with locals. Here are two pretty-in-pink German tourists who accompanied me for part of the way.















It's quite jarring these days to come across a cigarette packet in the middle of a rainforest walk. It wasn't there on my way in, but had arrived by the time I headed back, complete with cigarettes in it. I was trying to decide whether it was dropped by the fit young couple I'd seen running in with a baby in a pushchair, or the unfit-looking elderly couple who'd been shuffling off as I was arriving.

Pool of Photography

About 20 years ago I happened on a very scenic little pool at the bottom of a small waterfall on a creek in Tasmania. I had just done a 'Taking Better Pictures' sort of photography course, and recognised the potential in the colours, shapes, and textures. I liked the resulting picture, and more importantly, the lady who ran the photo printing booth in the local K-Mart was over the moon about it.

In those days you viewed photos on pieces of paper, called prints. Your camera used rolls of film, and you had to take said rolls to K-Mart or elsewhere to get the pictures developed and printed. The people there made more money if they could persuade  people to get enlargements made, and my lady used examples of customers' work, enlarged to various degress, stuck on the wall behind her, to illustrate what you could get and what it would cost. I was flattered and delighted when she asked whether my shot could be her new demonstration image. It was there for several years. 

The other day, walking in the Budawangs,  I came across another Pool of Photography, one to rival that earlier Tasmanian one. So I got to work again. Here are the results.