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Dove Lake Circuit

Miche at Dove Lake with the iconic Cradle Mountain behind... 

Miche on top of Glacier Rock...

Behind me the rock drops about 100 feet into the lake...

The lake from a gravel beach further along the trail...

Miche on a boardwalk section...

A rare shot of us together on a trail...

As we'd heard that it was so rare to see the summit, I couldn't help taking another shot each time there was a patch more of blue sky...

Miche in the trees... 

A Waratah flower...

A view through the Pandanas...

Miche and the boat hut ...

 

Fat bloke on a rock...

Devils @ Cradle

Later that day we visited a conservation centre for the much maligned and much misunderstood Tasmanian Devil...

They have an excellent sense of smell... This chap must have picked something up on the air...

Miche stroking a young Devil called 'Ossie', who we later adopted...

 

Feeding time Tasmanian Devil style is a very noisy event.

The Devils are not as aggressive as they are portrayed, they have no territories as such and their barking and mouthing is a form of communication...

They can open their jaws to 90 degrees; useful when taking on their favourite prey - Wombats and their thick necks. Their scavenger reputation is only partly deserved as they hunt and kill most of their prey themselves...

Conservation and breeding programmes like this one are necessary to protect a varied gene pool to hopefully one day to be able to combat Devil Facial Tumour Disease, a viral communicable cancer that has decimated the wild population across much of Tasmania...

A spotted-Tailed Quoll - a carnivorous marsupial...

 

An Eastern Quoll, now extinct on mainland Australia and only found in Tasmania...

Next stop - Cradle Mountain - Day 3 - Marian's Lookout walk

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