Ginger and Ed's Excellent Adventures

Our first inland journey we traveled to Rowallan Lake and camped near Walls of Jerusalem National Park. We enjoyed a tasty dinner of wild Tasmanian salmon lakeside.

To experience the Park properly requires several days trekking which we were not quite up to. We opted for a day hike in the Mersey River valley to waterfalls.. A swing bridge was the gateway.

The trail wound through old pasture past an old hut used by cattle men. There are still active grazing options in the upper Mersey valley but we saw little evidence of activity.

Lewis falls was our first side trip a mile or so in.

another mile or so we arrived at the side trail to Oxley falls. It took a little more searching to find the trail, but it was worth it. We enjoyed lunch by the rush of the water.

It was a beautiful day capped by a lovely sunset back at camp.

Our second day we hiked up into Walls of Jerusalem National Park from a popular trailhead. The route was steep but flowers along the way kept us distracted.

A welcome landmark was trappers hut. Men trapped rabbits up here after world war two for income. It was near the top of our thousand foot climb.

We barely scratched the edge of this park, but still loved the views.

After a late lunch at the top of our hike, we headed down and back to camp for a welcome dip in the lake.

Our third morning we packed up and made one mor stop up on the central plateau at the devil’s gullet. It was a short walk to an amazing canyon of dolerite, lava that were erupted when Australia and Antarctica split apart.

And then we were off to.the rainforest hamlet of Corinna …