Some of the impressive mine ruins at Beaconsfield *Narawntapu is the old new name for the Asbestos Ranges in Tasmania. The name was changed in 1986 because of fears about a possible association with asbestos. There is no asbestos in the Narawntapu National Park although small quantities of this and other minerals were mined nearby. Now this Park is named after the Aboriginal tribe which used to live there. I was always rather curious about this vast area of apparently undeveloped land in the heart of northern Tasmania, even more so after flying over it last week, that I came back to have a closer look. Would have done it last week but didn’t have my walking gear with me, so here I was coming back for another shot. Good thing I waited. I encountered my first snake on this walk- sandals would have been a disaster and I was also caught out after dark, which made me very glad of my son’s second best state of the art headlamp. He doesn’t have as mu...
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