So, we have come almost full circle back to Hobart for the final two nights of this tour.
Our stops today were to view the beautiful pink rocks of Coles Bay on the Freycinet peninsular, the Cape Tourville Lighthouse, the historic town of Richmond with its famous landmark bridge and a spectacular model village depicting Old Hobart.
Freycinet National Park is on the east coast of Tasmania, 125 kilometres (78 mi) northeast of Hobart. It occupies a large part of the Freycinet Peninsula, named after French navigator Louis de Freycinet. Founded in 1916, it is Tasmania's oldest park. The park contains part of the rugged Tasmanian coastline formed mainly of Devonian granite but it is Orthoclase, a pink feldspar, that gives the mountains and coastline their characteristic pink tint.
The Cape Tourville Lighthouse was built in 1971 by private contractors, is automatic and unmanned.
The pathway up to the lighthouse overlooks The Nuggets a close group of four granite islets, with a combined area of 6.76 hectares (16.7 acres).
In the breeding season the Islets are home to numerous species of seabirds including Little Penguin, Short-tailed Shearwater, Fairy Prion, Common Diving-Petrel, White-faced Storm-Petrel, Pacific Gull, Silver Gull, Black-faced Cormorant and Caspian Tern. Today with the help of some stationary binoculars we could see some Australian Fur Seals resting on convenient ledges.
It was a rather overcast that morning so my photos reflect the 'moody sky, with shafts of sunlight on the horizon.
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