​Bridport, Ringarooma, North East Tassie - 10 to 11 April

On our way north west to find a caravan park WITH power, we took some challenging steep windy roads and through lots of rain but when the clouds parted, the scenery over mountains and through the valleys of the high plains was delightful. From the forested rugged mountain sides to the bucolic lushness of the valleys - we decided to return for a better look the next day.

We had the honey moon site at Bridport caravan park AND quiet!

And that's just what we did and took a windy track south of Ringarooma into Mt Victoria National Park to check out Ralphs Falls - from Norms Lookout ... brothers perhaps? At 90m, the Falls is Tasmanias highest single drop waterfall. Its quite an amazing ribbon of water dropping over a sheer rock wall. The walk back from the Falls was rather special as I spotted a glorious burst of colour poking out of the base of a moss-covered tree. It deserved a closer look and a photo of course. This gorgeous thing has to be one of my favourites so far together with Russula and ....... they are all gorgeous or fascinating. [If you're interested in fungi go to Tasmanian fungi Facebook page or check out thegumbootchronicles.com which I have only just discovered.]

Aurantiporus pulchemmins - a real whopper 10 x 15cm.
It was growing out of the base of a moss-covered tree - I am down on the ground looking up!

We took the scenic route back to the van poking along the coast, when we could access it, and in and out of coastal villages such as Tomahawk whose beach late afternoon was rather peaceful.

Tomahawk is a small seaside village on Bass Strait in NE Tassie
(Note I seem to have a lot of moody sky shots - interesting that!)

The next day was to be our last in Tassie and we had special plans in mind!!