[paulh]

Wildflowers at a creek overlook (from October):

[ramseybuckeye]

Snow this morning

[IgorZ]

Snow this morning

It's snowing here too... Second time this year. Can't remember the last time it snowed in October...

[WPRESTO]

Really pretty bay.

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[ramseybuckeye]

From the Conkles Hollow Rim Trail

[paulh]

Really pretty bay.

From the Conkles Hollow Rim Trail

Great shooting, guys.

[paulh]

Taken late October at the nearby Colleyville Nature Center. These folks are walking towards a pond, just out of sight behind the trees at left.

[taks]

fog covered the mountains in the back ground

[WPRESTO]

fog covered the mountains in the back ground

It's kind of mystical when a cloud catches atop a mountain that way. I've wondered if the visual effect contributed to so many religions thinking that god(s) resided atop mountains.

[taks]

It's kind of mystical when a cloud catches atop a mountain that way. I've wondered if the visual effect contributed to so many religions thinking that god(s) resided atop mountains.

Yes I know what you mean. Some mountains, more so than others look majestic and sacred. I'm hoping to photograph such scene one of these days

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Lake Washington

[paulh]

Jeannie on the trail (barely visible)...

[taks]

another foggy morning

[Des]

Watkins Glen.

Outstanding series Timur.

These are from Lake St.Clair, in the highlands of Tasmania. The lake, Australia's deepest, was carved by a glacier. You can see the etchings on the rocks from when they were carried and dumped by the glacier. The whole area (Cradle Mountain-Lake St.Clair NP) is a World Heritage Area, recognizing its remarkable natural features and rich biodiversity. K-3 + DA 12-24.

[WPRESTO]

Outstanding series Timur.

These are from Lake St.Clair, in the highlands of Tasmania. The lake, Australia's deepest, was carved by a glacier. You can see the etchings on the rocks from when they were carried and dumped by the glacier. The whole area (Cradle Mountain-Lake St.Clair NP) is a World Heritage Area, recognizing its remarkable natural features and rich biodiversity. K-3 + DA 12-24.

Glad that place has World Heritage status. Wonderful to see it, as it isn't along our normal travel routes. One of those places you cannot get to, at least from MessyChewBits, without some long range planning.

[Des]

Glad that place has World Heritage status. Wonderful to see it, as it isn't along our normal travel routes. One of those places you cannot get to, at least from MessyChewBits, without some long range planning.

Tasmania's isolation, and particularly the remoteness and wildness of its southern and western third, have been its (relative) preservation. But it took a very long and continuing conservation struggle for World Heritage protection. The turning point was an epic battle in the early 1980s over a State government proposal to dam two wild and remote rivers (the Franklin and Gordon). There were massive protests around Australia and a huge campaign to save the area from more dams. It was a factor in a change of the federal government in 1983. The new government sought to protect the area affected, based mainly on its power to legislate over "external affairs" - ie its international obligations to protect areas of world conservation significance. The constitutional validity of the federal laws was upheld 4-3 in a landmark decision of the High Court of Australia. But the battle never stops - a few years ago the federal government sought to withdraw protection for parts of the WHA so that it could be woodchipped! It was soundly rebuffed by UNESCO.

It's rather out of the way, but I would recommend western and southern Tassie as a destination for any nature-loving visitors to Australia. It's truly unique.

These shots were taken on the edge of the Franklin-Gordon Wild Rivers National Park, which is the WHA preserved after the 1983 battle. K-3 + DA 12-24.