One of our favourite spots from our last trip to Tassie was National Park (the town) so we have come back to Mount Field, National Park (the National Park) and stayed in the Mount Field National Park Campground, in National Park (the town, not the park, but it’s in the park, so I guess it’s in both). Keep up, it’s complicated. I now have 2 stickers on the windscreen of the cruiser that allows access to any national park in Australia ( as long as you are in either of NSW or Tassie).
We’ve recovered from the kayak rapid adventure & decided to do a day trip to the Gordon Dam.
This had mixed feelings for Jayne as this was the focus of her first protest back in 1970s as a teenage greenie “Save The Trees” activist. The dam drowned a valley full of forest but has since saved burning a huge amount of coal to provide power into the Tassie grid & will continue to do so for years to come.
Can someone do the math on the CO2 of each scenario so we’ll know whether it was the right thing to do?
Double-Curvature Dam Wall
I couldn’t help admire the architecture of the dam thing. The dam wall is curved from side to side & up & down (double-curvature). When you stand on top of the middle of the dam wall & look down the dam valley, the down stream dam wall actually hangs in the dam air. It feels a bit dam eerie (pardon all the cussing).
Can’t waste a Dam Wefie
The current water level seemed a bit low & it’s exposed a lot of the dead wood in the valley.
It seems a waste now to see all these dead timber resources but my guess is that logging of the valley prior to flooding would have been another political nightmare back in the 1970s.
On the way back to camp we dropped into a Raspberry Farm & stocked up on some fruits of the forest.
Blueberry, Blackberry & Raspberry
Tomorrow we are heading toward Hobart & plan to spend a couple of days checking out MONA (Museum of Old & New Art), some other city sights and some vineyards (as we’ve run out of Dam Fine Wine)
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Dam that’s big
Dam… you seem to be having too much dam fun!!! Let us know what you think of MONA?
Can’t do the maths without more information – such as how much power the dam thing generates, how much base load electricity Tasmania requires, how much CO2 is in Tassie coal, etc. So lets just say you might or might not have done the right thing.