Tasmanian Waterfalls

leda falls st helens

Mon, 27 Aug 2007 20:40:24 +0000

This will continue to haunt you as the Australian Spectator of 1880 describes Leda falls as on a tin mining lease hold called Saxably Eastwood, in the middle of a tinmining area, the creek running into the Golden Fleece. Although there is considerable granite intrusions on the fall posted, There are no boulders like the throne. My bet is that Leda's falls were on Saxably creek, about 6 kms nth west, but the falls were destroyed by tin mining. The mystery continues

where's shonky

Thu, 07 Jun 2007 10:57:53 +0000

this is the only method I could find on the site to post an email/comment so here it goes: I've been trialling shonkymaps for a few weeks now and went back to this site in searh of this excellent software again and it's GONE! will we see the return of the software one day. I and many others would appreciate it's return. PS: it's a very saleable package you have there.

Horeb, Montana & Gads Falls

Sat, 26 May 2007 02:00:10 +0000

Dear Taswaterfalls.Com, I love bushwalking and I am passionate about mountains and (you guessed it) waterfalls. During many years, I have photographed a tremendous variety of Tasmanian waterfalls. Recently, I started dabbling in the art of 'blogging'. Put "tastrekker" into Google and you will find a 'BlogNow' blog with my walks from the past 18 months. (Thanks to zillions of spam hits, taswaterfalls.com currently does not allow submissions with links.) 3 of my blogged walks feature waterfalls so far. They are all in North Western Tassie: "10/11/06 - Moses Creek" describes a voyage of waterfall discovery to Horeb Falls. A visit to this valley reveals far more waterfall treasure than indicated by the map! "15/2/2007 - Montana Falls and Honeycomb Cave" shows the bottom half of Montana Falls as part of a visit to the 41 Degrees South salmon farm. (Google them if you like acquiring your smoked salmon from the source.) "4/10/2006 - February Plains 2" tells of a trip to visit a trappers hut. On the way back, I had a scramble up the valley of Gads Creek. The top of the falls can be seen from the road near the start of the track alongside Lake Parangana. Ironically, despite climbing past several spectacular falls, I was unable to get a closer view of the top drop! The entry "26/5/2006 - Hydro Hut" mentions a visit to Razorback Falls on Commonwealth Creek at the eastern edge of Windermere Plains. Unfortunately I have not blogged a photo of the falls. I may rectify that soon. Happy waterfall bagging, TasTrekker

Site outages, new articles and general guff

Fri, 18 May 2007 07:50:04 +0000

Just a small not to let you know why the site hasnt worked today. I hosted some maps that were made by a fellow geocacher on this server. It was all going along well averaging about 7-10gig of downloads a day...then last night it rocketed up to ~600gig in a single evening. My hosting company had a small fit at this and canned my site for the day. All fixed now though. I have added another fall to the southern section (strickland falls) and plan on tidying the site up a bit. Its been long neglected. Peace out.

Strickland Falls

Thu, 17 May 2007 01:17:49 +0000

Small but pretty waterfall on Hobart's Mt Wellington

Strickland Falls are located very close to the Strickland Avenue Hairpin bend. You can park on the bend at what used to be a picnic area. Very little left here now for comfortable picnicing.

There is no real track, access to falls is by skirting the river bank doing ones best not to get wet and crossing where there are some exposed rocks about 5o meters in from the road.

The falls themselves appear to be more of a weir, however the moss and ferns create a very photogenic and peaceful area to spend a bit of time.

Originally these falls were called Lady Edeline Falls. Lady Edeline was the wife of Sir Geraldine Strickland who was the governor of Tasmania from 1904 to 1909. More information on Strickland can be found here

Please click for images of the falls:

w00t! Spam gone.

Fri, 03 Nov 2006 08:22:28 +0000

All spam should be gone from the site finally. My spam filter is working as it should now. I still have a bit of work to do on the robot users that keep popping up...but that shouldnt have any effect on what you see. If you do see comments on the site that you think are spam or offensive please contact me at joe@taswaterfalls.com as soon as you can. In other news I did a spot of falls bagging in Victoria last week while i was over there with work...its an even better feeling to bag a fall while being paid, in a work rentacar :) As soon as i get time the site is going to get some major updates...including Dights Falls from Victoria. Peace out.

Spam

Fri, 03 Nov 2006 05:35:00 +0000

Please be aware that the comments you are seeing on the pages are not at all affiliated with taswaterfalls.com they are generated by spam bots faster than i can delete them...I am working on a fix for the problem but work and wedding planning is taking up all my time at moment. Please bear with me on this it will be fixed as soon as possible.

I am still working on it!

Sun, 27 Aug 2006 11:47:09 +0000

After being pretty lazy lately as far as site updates are concerned I am getting back into it. There are still a few things that haven't been restored after the site was hacked, like the wildlife pictures for example. I've decided to make a concerted effort to get the site looking the ducks guts by the end of the week. At this stage I have no work on this week so it just might happen! You might also notice I have started adding the maps back to listings again. This time I am putting them on the short description of each falls. I would love some feedback as to whether this is a better layout than the previous way i did it with the maps at bottom of page.

Hopefully Glitch Free Hosting now.

Tue, 01 Aug 2006 10:58:51 +0000

Site is back up on the new server cluster. Hopefully this will be the last of the issues we have been having lately. If not alternate hosting solutions will be investigated. Thanks for your patience over the last month or so.

Site Downtime

Sat, 29 Jul 2006 06:46:34 +0000

My hosting has been rather disapointing lately, with slow access times and even at times the site being non responsive. After talks with my web hosting company they have agreed to move the site to a faster cluster. Hopefully this will fix the issues we have been experiencing. If not then we might move to a seperate company. To move to this new cluster the site will be down for a day or so. Rest assured it is coming back. The downtime is only temporary.