Mt Wellington and Wellington Range Walks Part 2.
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From the top of Mt Wellington looking south towards North Bruny Island, Northwest Bay and the village of Margate in the right foreground, the mouth of the D'entrecasteaux Channel to the left. |
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A closer look at some of the
large vertical columns of pink granite that tend to dominate
the steeper slopes of Mt Wellington.
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The view south with the limited vegetation covered mountain top in the foreground. |
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Strange formations. |
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Looking down across the rocky face of Mt Wellington, towards the Derwent River and the southern suburbs of Hobart. |
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Granite is quite hard and resistant to erosion, so one wonders how this embedded boulder ended up with its bowl shaped indentation. Walking around the top of the range (during a mid-Summer period that has left much of the low land areas of south east Tasmania looking pretty dry), there was a fair bit of water lying around the mountain terrain. Perhaps a little pre-European human intervention may have something to do with this formation. |
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The view west towards the Huon Valley. Looking at Mt Wellington from Hobart can be a little deceiving as one could think that the mountain would descend much in the same way as it does on its eastern side. The reality however reveals quite a reasonably large mountain plateau and next to no chance walking over to a western edge to take in the view. |
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