Tasmania: January 2004
     

Walk to Fishers Point.
 
A life-size sculpture of a three month old Southern Right Whale looks out over Recherche Bay, just a five minute walk from the Cockle Creek Ranger's Office and car park. The easy two to three hour return walk to Fishers Point commences from the sculpture.

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Mt Leillateah just under 800 metres and the little Hippo (around 700 metres) to the right.
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The 1157 metre Mount La Perouse with a couple of tiny pockets of January snow just below the summit. A fishing boat at anchor in Recherche Bay. French names provide a clue to the early European interaction with this spectacular area.

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Looks a bit like a silloette of person but actually, thousands of tiny living mussle shells.
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A Koori midden, one of a few along the trail to Fishers Point.

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Mount La Perouse in the background.
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What remains of the Pilot Station, constructed in 1843 at Fishers Point. Closed in 1850, whalers leased the building prior to becomming the Sawyers Arms Hotel. Timber and coal kept the hotel in business up until around 1910.

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Adamsons Peak rises 1226 metres above sea level in the background with the 1012 metre pinnacle called the Mesa to the left.
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D'Entrecasteaux's Watering Place.
Tasmanian Assignments January 2004: Contents Page.
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