Cradle Mountain National Park

Gondwanian Landscapes

A series of photographs taken at Cradle Mountain National Park, Tasmania.
Jon McCormack, December 2024.

The roaring dell, o’erwooded, narrow, deep,
And only speckled by the mid-day sun;

Where its slim trunk the ash from rock to rock
Flings arching like a bridge;
—that branchless ash,
Unsunn’d and damp, whose few poor yellow leaves

Ne’er tremble in the gale, yet tremble still,
Fann’d by the water-fall! and there my friends
Behold the dark green file of long lank weeds,
That all at once (a most fantastic sight!)
Still nod and drip beneath the dripping edge
Of the blue clay-stone.

© 2025

Jon McCormack