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Fagus pics

Postby robl » Wed 07 May, 2014 9:13 pm

Some pics from today. Lucky with the weather. Colour might improve over the next few days.


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Re: Fagus pics

Postby Chris » Thu 08 May, 2014 12:02 am

Some lovely colour there Robi - thanks.
Where were they taken?
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Re: Fagus pics

Postby eggs » Thu 08 May, 2014 10:31 am

Looks like he got to drive up Mt Read. I didn't realise there was so much fagus up there.
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Re: Fagus pics

Postby Buddy » Thu 08 May, 2014 6:28 pm

eggs wrote:Looks like he got to drive up Mt Read. I didn't realise there was so much fagus up there.

Fagus abuts the western side of the famous alpine Huon pine up there.
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Re: Fagus pics

Postby robl » Fri 09 May, 2014 1:17 pm

The photographer parked near one of the locked gates and walked up.
Info is in "The Abels" volume two. The book mentions 21 sq km of fagus.
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Re: Fagus pics

Postby gayet » Fri 09 May, 2014 2:08 pm

Buddy wrote:
eggs wrote:Looks like he got to drive up Mt Read. I didn't realise there was so much fagus up there.

Fagus abuts the western side of the famous alpine Huon pine up there.



Doesn't Mt Read have the largest single patch of gunnii - something measured in acres?? I recall mention of something like that in the relevent Abels book.

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:oops: Obviously I took a while between writing and submitting that comment.

robl wrote:The photographer parked near one of the locked gates and walked up.
Info is in "The Abels" volume two. The book mentions 21 sq km of fagus.


That was what I was referring to..
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Re: Fagus pics

Postby Chris » Fri 09 May, 2014 10:18 pm

robl wrote:The photographer parked near one of the locked gates and walked up.
Info is in "The Abels" volume two. The book mentions 21 sq km of fagus.

Thanks robi and others. Shame about all the towers etc on top, but having just read the Abel description, Mt Read is now on my "must visit some time" list. Sounds like it would be great in Spring as well as Fagus time.
Before this, it was just a mysterious mountain somewhere in the West which had apparently replaced Gray as being the most-mentioned high rainfall site in daily BOM reports :)
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