As Far As You Can Go

As we had done the Hartz Mountain hike the day we arrived, instead of the next day, we found we had a day up our sleeve on our recent Tasmania trip. We were due to spend the night at Mt Nelson, a suburb of Hobart, but we had all day after spending the night at the free campground at Arve River, way downstream from the falls in the yesterdays image. 
So we checked out the map and the local tourist centre and decided we would head south to Cockle Creek, in fact as far south as you can go by road in the whole of Australia. This would take us down to a section of South West National Park, the biggest National Park in Tasmania. It rained pretty much all the way down and we had to get out our rain gear and get ready for our first wet hike. Fortunately the rain started to ease off after about 15 minutes and we took off on the Fishers Point Trail around the  Recherche Bay shoreline and we were treated to some spectacular conditions as the clouds were dark and dramatic as they finally started to clear through. The clear patches of blue sky made a great contrast, especially when reflected off the sand as shown in this image.

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