TazMania Part I - Walls of Jerusalem
Tassie's really big - three times the size of Israel - and so wild (36% of Tasmania is in reserves, National Parks and World Heritage Sites), that one just have to kick off somewhere. So I started in The Walls of Jerusalem NP, a beautiful alpine conservation area. I hear the giggling over there - I didn't went there because of its name! As far as I'm concerned, if someone could pick up Jerusalem with a giant forklift and set it sailing to the southern ocean, that would save the world a whole lot of suffering. I wouldn't provide all the nutcases in this city with flotation devices either...
The park was named by a local hiking enthusiast called Reg Hall in the 19th century, which probably never saw the actual walls of Jerusalem but was obviously very religious. Of course, no one in those days had even thought of asking the local people of this area, the fierce Big River Tribe, how they had called it for the past 11,000 years... By 1848, when an official survey finally gave this area its current name, they were already defeated and exiled to Flinders Island. The Tasmania central plateau remained a wilderness area of Bush rangers, furriers, fishermen and hunters that seasonally lived in local huts (below), until the area was declared a conservation area in the 20th century's 70s.
Now that we've cleared out the names' origin we can move on - this beautiful, 1100 m above sea level pass is called Herod's gate.
An early look from Mt. Jerusalem over to the walls, the Temple Mountain and Damascus gate.
So you weren't there to smell it, but the scenery is still nice.
and to think that Tassie is known for its terrible weather - it was cold, but brilliant. Below on the left are Pencil Pines, a spruce-like tree, some of them are over 1200 years old.
Waterscapes are abundant around this area and create some really dramatic effects. This is just one example, possibly not even the most impressive.
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