Veronika Wild

The vegetation is much denser here and there are lots of lovely tree ferns At last, we came to the Liffey turnoff, then took the right turn towards the picnic ground.   Would we or wouldn’t we?  Surprisingly, there didn’t seem to have been a drop of rain on this side of the mountains and the second road was completely dry. Gingerly, I took the van down. It’s narrow and caravans and long wheel -based vehicles aren't allowed down because of the tight bends. There's a car park for them not far from where the road turns off the highway, but it would have been much too far for either of us to walk down to the start of the track. It didn't say anything about campervans. The van is tall but only the length of a normal delivery van, so on I went. About three quarters of the way down there was a wide 4WD coming up and we couldn’t pass each other. The driver motioned to me to back up but on my side there was a soft edge and a steep drop and I don't have great visibility...

The landscape in the folds beneath the Plateau is very different to that of Poatina  Day 1 My friend doesn’t drive, making it difficult for her to get to many parts of Tasmania, so I thought while we were in this area I should try to take her to Liffey Falls. I should point out that at the same time as I broke my arm, she had broken her leg and was still having physio and I wasn’t too sprightly myself. Ever since my stint in hospital I would start out enthusiastically enough, and then quite suddenly run out of steam. We pulled into the lower Campground and set off on the three -hour walk from the bottom of the hill to the base of the falls. The walk was pretty enough – it was a veritable fern garden through light rainforest with myrtle and sassafrass  trees and the river beside us on and off, but it was all uphill. By the time we got to the little bridge which marks the junction between the track which comes down from the top, and this one, I had to sit down and rest. D...