Usually when I visit my cousins, the White Family, I can always expect the unexpected… like for example going and hanging out on their rooftop, (see above) or on one memorable occasion having one of my international guests run over by a wallaby during a bush walk… 🙂
They live in the beautiful Tasmanian bush, off grid in a house they built themselves and I get a lot of great gardening and other advice from them!
They live by a fantastic little waterfall, Detention Falls and it makes a really nice walk from their place, and a very peaceful place to visit
The bush has lots of interesting things if you look close enough
You are greeted with this sign, that all the locals happily ignore, as the area has been part of their lives for generations.
Its a fair climb down to get to the top of the falls!!
Its quite the view over the top!
Its nice to sit and soak up the quiet
We continued to walk down to get a different view of the falls
We are not even at the bottom, but from here its a good view of the falls – Asuka checks out how far down we could go!
I love Detention Falls. It just shimmies down the rocks like a lady in a slinky dress!!
The walk home is a good opportunity to give Alice, the border collie a good run to wear her out!
Its lovely to have little secret places to go to, off the tourist track where you can appreciate a bit of nature that isn’t far from your front door!
Have a lovely day everyone
Cheers
As always, love your photography! thanks for sharing!
Thank-you Karen!! 🙂 Thats lovely feedback!
What a beautiful,enchanting place! Your photography captures the wildness of the area.
I’m sure the sign is there to prevent folks from expecting compensation from the government when they end up falling and hurting themselves
Thank-you! And I think you have it exactly right.
Originally people just went down for a walk. Then they (council?) got fancy and put in this la-de-dah platform viewing area. Then (not sure how long after) some engineer came in and went ‘eek this isn’t safe’ (ok they probably didn’t say ‘eek’) and helicoptered the structure out and put up the sign!! Ahhhh – tax dollars hard at work!! 🙂
This is the sort of thing we’re hoping to achieve with our day trips – the next one is going to be natural, I swear it. I have to. It’s like a battery that needs recharging! I suspect that when I live somewhere like you all, I’ll feel much more satiated in that regard, but “the big city” is very crowded and oppressive as you know. Thank you for sharing bits like this to help me keep that need at bay just a bit longer until I can make it out to a wilderness!
Also, what is UP with that WORM!? In -my- experience they don’t climb trees either! 😉
It is lovely just to get out into the natural areas!! We did that as much as we could when we lived in Canberra
haha – totally weird worm! I agree
nice to know that your tax dollars work as hard as ours’ do here in the US. haha.
Its a world-wide common problem!! lol!!