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Launceston Gorge photos

Last week I enjoyed a pleasant morning walk through Launceston's Cataract Gorge. It's close to where I live and I often visit when I'm at a loose end. I always enjoy the serenity and the many working trails offer a variety of routes to take.

On this day, I started at the Duck Reach carpark and trekked along the gorge to the First Basin, stopping briefly for a refuel of coffee then climbed the path less trodden by tourists to the Eagle Eyrie Lookout. This is the highest viewpoint in the reserve. There were other trails to take on my return, but I chose to double-back the same way I came.

Below are a selection of photos from the walk, along with the GPS tracker route recorded by the Nikon AW100. The other map has been generated by Adobe's Lightroom 4 map module showing the locations of where all the photos were taken (including the discard ones not shown here).

 

    

 

On the Duck Reach trail.

 

The suspension bridge at Duck Reach

 

A section of gorge near Duck Reach.

 

Taken near the suspension bridge near the first basin. In this shot I particularly liked the way the green foliage offsets agains the dark rocks. I wasn't evident in the original photo until I'd applied a set of enhancements in Lightroom.

 

 This is near the start of the climb to Eagle Eyrie.

 

About halfway up to Eagle Eyrie lookout, the track starts to become a little rugged. This was actually taken on my return descent, hence the viewpoint towards the First Basin seen in the upper left.

 

The view from Eagle Eyrie isn't that great from a photographic perspective. There are too may trees blocking the view. This shot taken from a lower lookout on the same track shows water flowing through the last section of gorge before connecting to the Tamar River in Launceston.

 

 A glimpse of Launceston from the lower lookout on the Eagle Eyrie trail.

 

Suspension Bridge at First Basin.

 

I normally take panoramas by taking a series of three or four photos (depending on the view) and stitching them together in Photoshop. The Nikon AW100 has the ability to take panorama photos and process them in the camera. This is a rather wide 180 degree view, one of two preset settings on the camera.

For more information on the Cataract Gorge in Launceston, Tasmania…  please visit the official site here.

Nikon AW100 camera info here

Adobe Lightroom 4 details here

 

All the way with FMJ...

As an Aussie, I still think it's weird I support the Kiwi's in the World Match Racing Tour. Anyway, today they took on Australian sailor David Gilmour and won. Congratulations William Tiller and the boys at Full Metal Jacket.

Full Metal Jacket @FMJRacing

Full Metal Jacket are into the Korea Match Cup! The boys have defeated David Gilmour 3-1 in the Final! Good racing!

Audrey Lakai @calTuan

Full Metal Jacket Racing - Winner of Korea Match Cup 2012 Qualifier. Congrats!

 

WorldMatchRacingTour @worldmrt

Congratulations Will Tiller @FMJRacing for winning Korea Match Cup Qualifier. See you at @koreamatchcup 2012! #WMRT

Gilmour v Tiller

Team Full Metal Jacket

Victorious FMJ