Fern forest in the valley on the Leven River Walk, Dial Range The Dial Range lies about 13 km south of the quaint coastal town of Penguin. Overshadowed by the scenic splendours of Cradle Mountain, the Dial Range is easily overlooked by tourists and visitors like me who are hurrying on to somewhere else, but it seems well known to locals who pass me on most of the tracks. Only around 500 metres above sea level, it stretches in a southerly direction for about 14 km and gets its name from one of the peaks, Mt. Gnomon, which apparently looks like an ancient sundial from the air. noun: gnomon ; plural noun: gnomons 1. The projecting piece on a sundial that shows the time by the position of its shadow. A quiet walk by the Leven River. It's tame here, unlike at Leven Canyon a day or two later I was hoping to get a few interesting fungi snaps here, but like the summits of the mountains in the West, they all seemed rather dry and there were very few fungi to ...
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