Southernmost public boat ramp at Catamaran
Wishing you all a wealth of wonder and whimsy and wisdom and wanderings in 2015.
Wednesday, January 7, 2015
South - way, way south!
One year has ended and another begun. I thought it would be a good idea to mark the occasion by wandering somewhere new, so I went south - as far south as you can possibly go in Tasmania, or in Australia, for that matter. I drove to the very end of the road to a little place called Cockle Creek. Once a thriving town of whalers, farmers, and timber cutters, it now has a few holiday shacks, a campground and a National Parks office for the southern most national park in the country and lots of "southernmosts"
Southernmost public boat ramp at Catamaran
Southernmost street at Cockle Creek
Southernmost sawmill, operated until the 1940s by a family of women
Southernmost walking track
South Cape in the background, the southernmost point of land
South Cape Bay Beach - Australia's southernmost beach
Our lunch time log on the southernmost beach. The weather, wind and temperature were all perfect.
Fresh crab for lunch. He wasn't sharing though.
Remnants of what must have been Australia's southernmost fence
The southernmost board walk on the southernmost walking track
The South Cape Bay walk takes you through a wonderful variety of vegetation types - a swamp, dry gum tree forest, wet rainforest, coastal scrub and a wide marshy valley dotted with flowering tea tree shrubs. It is a lovely mostly flat walk with a cliff top walk and steps down to the South Cape Bay beach.
Blandfordia punicea - Christmas Bells
Afternoon tea at Cockle Creek at the southernmost picnic tables
Southernmost campground
Southernmost bridge over Cockle Creek
Southernmost public art sculpture - a life sized bronze statue of a three month old southern right whale
Australia's southernmost private property
The southernmost railway station, Ida Bay railway, operates the southernmost tourist train ride, and is next door to the southernmost café
Southport has the southernmost pub, shop, petrol station and caravan park, all at the one location
New Year's eve drink and dinner at the southernmost RSL club in Dover, which has spectacular water and mountain views
Sunset at Dover to end 2014.
Wishing you all a wealth of wonder and whimsy and wisdom and wanderings in 2015.
Southernmost public boat ramp at Catamaran
Wishing you all a wealth of wonder and whimsy and wisdom and wanderings in 2015.
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Great read, great pics. One more place for me to visit next time I'm down that way.
ReplyDeleteDefinitely! Dover was a lovely peaceful place to stay. You can ride the Ida Bay railway to Southport lagoon, go walking all day or camping even, and then catch the train back to the station. That would be a great day, I reckon. Plus there lots of other things to see and do between there and Hobart.
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