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AMELIA NIKLES-RALPH

Wanderbyte II Adventure Photographer & Freelance Writer

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THE "FREE" THREE CAPES - AN EPIC MULTI-DAY TASMANIAN HIKE - REVIEW!!

I can clearly remember two pieces.

The first one is a throne, much larger than normal human size. It sits at the base of a hill, amongst a huge old-growth tree-fern forest. It is made of rough timber and bronzed metal. I had to clamber up into it to sit. I feel it implies that we are insignificant in comparison to this forest and that we need it.

A snake mosaic stretches part of the track to Cape Pillar; its head and its tail is separated by colorful mosaic tiles for at least a kilometer. I love how this piece is incorporated into the track; adding instead of subtracting.

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categories: Hikes
Monday 09.12.22
Posted by Amelia NiklesRalph
 

The Du Cane Range Traverse - A Photo Story

There are countless accounts of the Du Cane Range Traverse, which is off the quintessential Overland Track in Tasmania. I read these accounts before heading off on this adventure and they didn’t convince me that the walk would be the most stunning hike I’ve ever done - in fact, I thought that it would seriously inferior to the Western Arthurs. But man, I couldn’t have been more wrong. Wild, windswept peaks. Uninterrupted 360 degree views. Empty campsites beside perched lakes. The golden glow on jagged peaks in the still of dusk. I’ll let the following photos speak for themselves.

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tags: du cane range traverse, overnight hiking australia, overtrack hiking australia, hikes tasmania, #ducanerangetraverse, #hiketasmania, #adventurephotographer, #multidayhikesaustralia, #offtrackhikesaustralia
categories: Hikes
Tuesday 02.22.22
Posted by Amelia NiklesRalph
 

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