Last year the CB and I visited the Highlands of Scotland. The weather alternated between bleak, sunny, atrocious and average, every day. It was summer. The only difference between the Highlands and Tasmania’s south west is that while we’ve been here in the south west the weather in mid-autumn has been consistently atrocious. Now this isn’t necessarily a bad thing if you can marshal a bottle of port, a few red wines, a roaring fire and double glazing to your defence against the elements. And thus it was so. Oh, and there are no men in skirts that I could locate despite the name of the town.
Still, Strathgordon is a long way to go to sit in front of a fire. Fortunately the view through the double glazing was spectacular. The white sandy beaches of Lake Pedder and the bare mountains dusted with snow like icing sugar on grey, craggy cakes provided a perfect backdrop to the lounge chairs round the open fire. Occasionally, when the rain relented we rushed outside to snap a few photos then beat a hasty retreat back to the sanctuary of the Lake Pedder Wilderness Lodge, an excellent, welcoming and hospitable sanctuary I have to say.
It “only” rains for 270 days a year down here and for the other 95 there are bush fires. We saw the evidence. Black charred trees and pristine white snow provide quite a contrast. And now, a couple of months after the last major fire there’s a smattering of green as the tree ferns spit new fans skywards and leaves start to sprout rather incongruously from tree trunks. Fortunately the wilderness areas here are massive and the fires only impacted a small percentage before the tireless firies got things under control. Thanks guys for another job very well done.
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