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[Team Bubble Tea]

Second post from us. These pics are from our NE Tassie trip a few years ago.

Imperial Hotel, Branxholm




Branxholm Briseis Walking Track

This newly developed track is along part of the 48Km water race from Ringarooma to Derby to the Briseis Tin Mine (hydraulic sluicing). The race construction commenced in January 1901 and was completed by March 31st 1902. It was constructed to convey water at a precise gradient of 4 feet per mile (1:1320). Three gangs of men, with approximately one hundred in each, simultaneously constructed each section over 15 months until they met. It took three weeks for the first release of water to travel the race and reach the mine at a rate of 24 million gallons daily

[Mystic]

Nice shots and thanks for the info. Beautiful old pub

[Cascade]

Nice pics.


That pub does a great meal.

[Shane V]

Thanks TBT...great pix and awesome info. Looks like another spot I need to check to at some point.

[Team Bubble Tea]

Thanks for your kind responses. Two more pics from that trip. Both in the Gladstone fossicking area. We've found some nice smokey quartz there, and some nice clear quartz crystals too.

Here's the link for MRT fossicking sites in Tassie if it hasn't been posted here before http://www.mrt.tas.g..._schema=PORTAL.

This pic took some doing as Jack-Jumpers and Hakeas aren't our best friends. We used a Finepix and did the old trick of taking 20 or 30 shots in the hope one would come out OK.

This pic is of a tiny drosera in the river bed.

[Shane V]

Very nice shots yet again TBT.

[Mystic]

Thanks for the links, and the really nice photo's too

[Team Bubble Tea]

Black Creek off Mt Paris Dam road and Mt Poimena

Those lovely looking water-holes are amazingly deep, a much smaller one than this was at least 12ft deep.

On the track up to Mt Poimena.

Native Tasmanian Pepper Berry: the fruit starts mild and flavourful but then gets very hot.

Looking at a storm that dumped loads of hail down the valley.

[exislegirl]

The black creek location looks like a great place to visit in summer.

Natalie

[Shane V]

Beautiful spot and shots TBT. Nothing like a pepper berry beats plain black pepper hands down in my book. Cool bug on there as well, do you know what it is?

[Team Bubble Tea]

Hi Shane, not sure about that insect, it was quite large, I'm guessing it's a native wasp(?). Never seen one like it before or since.

[Shane V]

You could be right there TBT. I have seen similar ones around here but they are slightly different in colouring.

[Cascade]

I believe its an Ichneumon Wasp, which is a parasitic wasp and are widspread, also considered to be beneficial, there are many varieties and often hard to identify. The Native Tasmanian wasp is actually a flower wasp and can be mistaken by some people to be a European Wasp.

Regardless of that the photo is an excellent study and you should consider forwarding it to the Museum and DPIW for their collection. Also consider the Tasmanian Field Naturalist Society and if your lucky, full identification.

As for the native Pepper I agree great for cooking and flavouring... Got tired of going out searching for Native Pepper so planted a few of my own and now have my supply on the doorstep..... So to speak.....

[Mystic]

Great shots and info Jon A few places that will be added to my list for the coming months.