Our way south included passing by the ancient forests Tasmania has. Today we woke up in one of them, close to St Claire lake national park.

We quickly had breakfast and then we visited lake St Claire. A beautiful spot, where you arrive if you do the overland track, a 4 days hike through the Cradle mountains.

Right after we continued heading south and stopped at the wall. This is an interesting exhibition of a well known local artist. He specialised in carving wood, in a really unbelievable way. Very realistic human and animal portraits on a wooden wall which tries to drive you through Tasmanian history, if you like art and specially wood carving this is a must (no photos as cameras were not allowed inside).

More of heading south, that's what the days are about now, and we stopped in more waterfalls and view points. There is no point anymore in writing down names, the way is full of them and we stopped in all. Each of them is worth it. If you like rainforests, trees, green... this side of the island is great.

Once you are south enough, approaching Hobart, the landscape starts to look a bit more dry and mountains switch for hills. In fact, the landscape looked pretty much like Galicia, not as green as the rainforests and hilly.

But since we wanted to visit the Russell falls, we were to stop yet in another national park, wherr we would also sleep.

Here we did a two hours hike and we saw three waterfalls, two more than expected. Apart from that we got the opportunity to walk through the forest, which happened to have one pf the tallest trees in Tassie and in the world. They are Eucalyptus trees, and they are only overpassed in hight by sequoias in the US.

We were in front of this 79 meters tall tree, which first branch falling was 34 meters long, can you imagine? 

It was a dream to be there, to see how this forest evolves. It turns out that Eucalyptus need fore to grow. They benefit from it, the ashes give them nutrients which makes them grow stronger and they last fire. It is not like pine trees, which light up and reach high temperatures very quickly, that's why wild fires on pine forests are uncontrollable.

This was followed by a long dinner and then a night outing. Really, Tasmania is like Pokemon, or Jurassic Park, there are animals everywhere, Wallabies, Possums... all the time, and because it is spring, all with babies! But this was not the point of tonights outing. Today we were looking for glowing worms. We managed, but they weren't so many as I thought or imagined. This has been one of those cases where high expectations are not met, it was like the time I went to see glowing plankton in my trip to Thailand and I was in the end a bit disappointed. I just imagined to see so many that they would make us see in the darkness, however, it was more like; close your eyes, get used to the darkness and then try to see them. They are cool, and if you sleep here is worth going, but if this is your only motivation you better spend your time somewhere else.

And now, sleep time.

Diego!