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New Harbour Range

Postby tas-man » Wed 14 May, 2008 9:14 am

Its nearly two months since my Easter Trip to SW Tassie and I have been meaning to post a few photos, but not got a "round tuit" until now. We enjoyed a perfect day on the NH Range, a front moved across late afternoon and we had a calm clear night. It made up for the five days of wet weather on our way back to Cockle Creek.
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Re: New Harbour Range

Postby tas-man » Wed 14 May, 2008 9:18 am

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Re: New Harbour Range

Postby tas-man » Wed 14 May, 2008 9:23 am

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Re: New Harbour Range

Postby tas-man » Wed 14 May, 2008 9:30 am

Here is a link to my YouTube video panorama taken at sunrise on Easter Sunday morning on top of the New Harbour Range.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OtauiRUN19Q
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Re: New Harbour Range

Postby Son of a Beach » Wed 14 May, 2008 9:35 am

Great shots... the fog in the valleys always adds to any picture too.
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Re: New Harbour Range

Postby Mickeymoo » Wed 14 May, 2008 11:07 am

Great shots Ian, looks like it would have been a magic sunrise from up there, great work.

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Re: New Harbour Range

Postby walkinTas » Wed 14 May, 2008 1:35 pm

Very nice Ian. Looks like you'll have a lot of trouble picking an entry for the next photo competition. :)
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Re: New Harbour Range

Postby tas-man » Sun 18 May, 2008 11:33 pm

Here are some additional photos that set the scene for the New Harbour Range and show the variety of views from the range (in good weather).
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The New Harbour Range stands apart as you walk south from Melaleuca on the start of the South Coast Track

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New Harbour Beach looking west from the slopes of the New Harbour Range

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The white quartzite sea cliffs forming the south western side of the New Harbour Range are spectacular.
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Re: New Harbour Range

Postby tas-man » Sun 18 May, 2008 11:47 pm

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Cox Bight, Point Eric, and Freney Lagoon

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Cox Bight, Point Eric, and Freney Lagoon with the Ironbound Range in the distance behind the Red Point Hills

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Looking south along the top of the range, Maatsuyker Island is in the distance on left.
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Re: New Harbour Range

Postby tas-man » Tue 20 May, 2008 3:24 pm

I experimented with Nikon's "PhotoStitch" software on a few of the NH Range photos that lent themselves to the panoramic treatment even though it was not intended at the time. Let me know 'sonofabeach' if I am overloading this thread :wink:
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View to West from part way up the range with Smoke Signal Hill on left and New Harbour behind.
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View to East from top of range looking over Cox Bight and Freney Lagoon to the Ironbound Range
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Re: New Harbour Range

Postby Mickeymoo » Tue 20 May, 2008 4:21 pm

Dam that last one is great, really makes me want to be there :D
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Re: New Harbour Range

Postby Son of a Beach » Tue 20 May, 2008 5:47 pm

tas-man wrote:Let me know 'sonofabeach' if I am overloading this thread :wink:


No problems with overloading topics in this forum. :) So long as the photos are no more than 800 pixels (attachments are thumbnailed to this size anyway), and no more than 1 MB each (which is enforced in the attachment process anyhow).

They look great, too!
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Re: New Harbour Range

Postby frank_in_oz » Wed 21 May, 2008 8:26 am

Beautiful pics, really nice. Must get back down there..... keep up the great work!
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Re: New Harbour Range

Postby TassieMargie » Wed 21 May, 2008 9:41 am

Awesome shots. Its yet another place I would love to get too. Thanks for sharing them. :D
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Re: New Harbour Range

Postby tas-man » Wed 02 Apr, 2014 12:00 pm

Time to resurrect this topic with some photos of my second visit to the New Harbour Range on a Launceston Walking Club trip in January 2014 during the heatwave. A week in SW Tassie without rain! . . . and the range was too dry to camp on top again, so we did a day trip from the campsite on New Harbour.
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Sunrise from New Harbour Beach campsite looking at Smokesignal Hill with the New Harbour Range behind.

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Re: New Harbour Range

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Re: New Harbour Range

Postby tas-man » Wed 02 Apr, 2014 12:23 pm

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A flowering sundew half way up the New Harbour Range - the first time I have seen one of these in the flesh.

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Re: New Harbour Range

Postby biggbird » Wed 02 Apr, 2014 7:45 pm

Beautiful place, can't wait to get there one day. Thanks for sharing!
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Re: New Harbour Range

Postby stepbystep » Wed 02 Apr, 2014 8:28 pm

The New Harbour Range remains in my top 3 all time camps. So beautiful.

Here's a few of mine.
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Re: New Harbour Range

Postby biggbird » Mon 07 Apr, 2014 7:20 pm

Yep, still wanna go there... :P
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Re: New Harbour Range

Postby north-north-west » Mon 07 Apr, 2014 9:38 pm

biggbird wrote:Yep, still wanna go there... :P

+1

Actually, the amount I want to go there, it's about +10
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