Cradle Mountain National Park

Happy Easter all. We drove from the coast up into the highest mountains in Tasmania. It is alpine country with plants found nowhere else in the world. We are staying at Cradle Mountain Lodge which is like one of the old national park lodges in the US with cozy lounges where people sit around in front of the fireplaces reading or playing games. We drove up to Dove Lake at the end of the road in the park hoping to see the mountain. We got glimpses of it as the clouds moved over but never saw the whole thing. We are the look for wildlife and have managed to see wallaby and wombat. Probably won't see the Tasmanian Devil as they are nocturnal and shy in spite of their reputation. We took several short hikes through the rainforest to waterfalls. It is very beautiful here.