Hello to all the people visiting from the photos posted on the Mercury Website. Rather than showing you the same photos again, I thought I would put up some video.
Couple of corrections on my part to be made. Repulse Dam is 28 MegaWatt, not 40, and there are also Liapootah and Wayatinah stations upstream of Catagunya, which in the excitement of the moment I ommitted from commentary.
Please be sure to visit again, as I will put up pictures of my travels around the Derwent Valley over the coming week.
Making an impulsive decision to go and see the Clarke Dam spilling for the first time in a long time, I jumped in the car this morning with camera and started driving to Butlers Gorge. What I had not counted on was the snow. While the above picture has the nice effect of making the forest look wonderful with snow, it does nothing for the ability to drive on snow without snowchains. Not long after taking this photo, it got too dangerous and I was forced to abandon the trip. I did however get quite a lot of photos & video of the Derwent Valley in flood, and I will share these over the course of the next week or two. Please continue reading to see the conditions I was driving in..
I don’t normally try to take advantage of current events with old photography, but seeing there is such an interest I am going right ahead anyway. In the last week or so the Cataract Gorge in Launceston has been in flood as the Trevallyn Dam spills. This is always quite a spectacular site. These photos were taken a while ago now, but the impact remains the same.
Marriot Falls was the ultimate destination of my trip that went via Lake Meadowbank. The track to get there was a little different to what was advertised on other websites. The falls themselves are quite spectacular, and I believe moreso than the Russell Falls nearby. Unfortunately due to the higher than normal water flow due to recent rains, I was unable to get as close as I would have liked, and as a result the photo has been obscured by trees.
Lake Meadowbank is formed by the Meadowbank Hydro development, and is the most downstream of all the power stations on the Derwent scheme. The upper reaches of the lake is quite shallow, and the area photographed has been known to be dry under exceptional summer conditions. Just out of picture is a causeway and single lane bridge, which makes a spectacular crossing on the way to Ellendale & National Park. Grad ND8 + CPF Filters used.
Here’s a photo from the vault, one of Salamanca place at night. I particularly like this one as the halogen lighting only serves to enhance the colours of the sandstone buildings. Salamanca Place is perhaps the most historic precinct in Hobart, with roots going back to the early days of the settlement of Tasmania.
