This is the real West Coast - rugged mountains, rich vegetation I wanted to show an American friend the West Coast with its rainforests, lakes and waterfalls and those crazy mining towns clinging bravely to life. Unfortunately, I totally wore her out just getting there. She did like the leatherwood flowers though. It's Leatherwood season No matter how often I travel the Lyell Highway- more times than I care to count, it never fails to thrill me to leave behind the relative bleakness of the plateau, or the smug pastoral hamlets of the lower slopes and plunge down through the Surprise Valley with its sharp, richly clothed mountains stretching almost to the sea. It is almost always an adventure, some of which I would rather forget, but today the sun is almost shining and the leatherwoods are in bloom. Like much of Tasmania, Hobart to Strahan doesn’t look far on the map. Only 299.7 km from Hobart according to Google, but don’t be fooled. Whoever wr...
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