The Echo Point Hut was built by the Tasmanian Parks and Wildlife Service in 1962. Sitting in the final stages of the 82 km (51 mi) Overland Track between Cradle Mountain and Lake St Clair the often bypassed wooden hut remains in service in its original state and sleeps 8 people. Cradle Mountain-Lake St Clair National Park, Central Highlands, Tasmania, Australia.
Waves of snow clouds roll through the northern end of Lake St Clair partially obscuring the craggy dolerite peaks of the Tasmanian central highlands. Not the sort of scenery most people expect from Australia, the shot was taken looking north towards Narcissus Hut from a small boat on the lake. Heavily glaciated in the last ice age the lake is the deepest in Australia at 160 m (525ft) and covers approximately 45 km2 (17 sq mi). Cradle Mountain-Lake St Clair National Park, Central Highlands, Tasmania, Australia.
A Flinders Island Wombat (Vombatus ursinus) and her baby on Maria Island. A muscular marsupial that digs extensive burrows. Unlike other marsupials it has a backwards facing pouch so that when digging it does not gather soil in its pouch over its young.
