Northeastern Tasmania with Pepper Bush Adventures

From Kangaroo Island we flew to Adelaide, to Melbourne, and finally to Launceston, Tasmania. There we met Craig Williams of Pepper Bush Adventures for our first look at Tasmania.

Craig is something of a Tasmanian Renaissance man. He's an experienced bushwalker, with hundreds of stories to tell. He's a hunter with encyclopedic knowledge of his territory and the plants and animals living there. He's a master butcher and skilled cook who makes creative use of bush spices and Tasmanian ingredients (including wallaby). He's a resource for scientists and film crews.

The photos below will give you some sense of our time with Craig and his wife Janine. But quite a few of the best moments must be left to your imagination -- like meeting Craig's friends at the pub in Mathinna, spotting hordes of wallabies and wombats at night from his four-wheel drive, and seeing the only platypus we found in the wild.

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Craig and Michelle standing in virgin forest Northeast Tasmania	Millybrook Lodge, our base of operations when touring with Pepper Bush Adventures Northeast Tasmania	View from the porch at Millybrook Lodge. Many platypuses live in the surrounding ponds and nearby river, including some that have appeared in documentary films Northeast Tasmania


Eastern quoll, seen on "quoll patrol" with Craig Northeast Tasmania	Black variant eastern quoll, seen on "quoll patrol" with Craig Northeast Tasmania	Mountain pepper, from which Pepper Bush Adventures takes its name, and one of Craig's sources of local spices Northeast Tasmania


Janine Williams leading our walk to Cuckoo Falls Northeast Tasmania	Cuckoo Falls Northeast Tasmania	Ralph Falls, the longest single-drop waterfall in Australia. (A little dry when we visited, unfortunately.) Northeast Tasmania


Ringarooma Valley from the lookout at Ralph Falls Northeast Tasmania	The White Knights, white gum trees approaching 90 meters (about 300 feet) in height, in Evercreech Reserve Northeast Tasmania	The tallest white gum tree known, 91.3 meters (300 feet), at Evercreech Reserve Northeast Tasmania


Ben Lomond Northeast Tasmania	Michelle and Allen at the summit of Legges Tor, the highest point on Ben Lomond and second highest point in Tasmania. The rock here is dolerite, found in quantity only in Tasmania, Antarctica, and South Africa, which once were adjacent in the Gondwana supercontinent Northeast Tasmania	Jacob's Ladder, the switchback road up to the ski resort on Ben Lomond Northeast Tasmania


Misty day in the gorge at Jacob's Ladder, the switchback road up to the ski resort on Ben Lomond Northeast Tasmania

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