NARAWNTAPU National Park

 

1/ The Narawntapu National Park is on the coast of central northern Tasmania. This photo shows the West Head Lookout looking west across Badgers Beach.

2/ This is the eastern corner of Badgers Beach, Narawntapu. The photo is looking to the west across the beautiful sands.

3/ Towering granite cliffs look down on Badgers Beach, Narawntapu.

4/ This rugged, granite wall peers down onto Badgers Beach, Narawntapu.

5/ This is West Head looking to the east towards the Mouth of the Tamar River.

6/ This photo shows a long view from Badger Beach looking east towards West Head. The settlement at Badger Beach is just off this beach to the right.

7/ This is the view looking back east towards Badger Beach, Narawntapu. The beautiful aqua color of the water is quite genuine.

8/ This photo shows the rugged cliffs along the track to Copper Cove and Bakers Beach.

9/ From the track you can see the variety of vegetation at Narawntapu as well as the distant hills.

10/ This photo shows a gully near Copper Cove. This gully was once used by copper miners.

11/ This photo shows a long range view of Copper Cove. Note that the beach is not as good as Badgers or Bakers for swimming. The strange name remembers a copper mine that was once here.

12/ The rocky beach at Copper Cove was not a safe place for swimming, but it was quite beautiful.

13/ This photo shows a view of the rocks looking west towards Little Badger Head Point.

14/ This photo shows the rocky beach at Copper Cove looking east towards Badger Head Point.

15/ The beach contains a strange green algae, which may have been caused by ancient mining.

16/ This photo shows a fresh water creek at Copper Cove. This was used by the ancient miners.

17/ This section of Copper Cove contained a lot of drift wood. Some of the wood showed evidence of human crafting.

 

1/ The Narawntapu Ranger Station beyond the car park is the place to begin your exploration of Badger Beach. The sign shows you walks that go to the beach, the lagoon and the lawn. From the lawn you can see wombats and kangaroos and at the lagoon, you can see a huge variety of birds.

2/ These signs at the ranger station show you the huge variety of birds that can be seen in Narawntapu. The best viewing is from the bird hide at the lagoon.

3/ Bakers Beach is a huge white sand beach that begins after Little Badger Head Point. This is just t0 the west of Copper Cove. The beach continues to Griffiths Point in the east.

4/ As you can see, the sand and swimming are first class at Bakers Beach, Narawntapu.

5/ This photo shows Little Badger Head Point at the eastern end of Bakers Beach. Just east of this is Copper Cove shown on my Badger Beach photo page.

6/ A walkway from the ranger station takes you east towards the lagoon. From the lagoon you can see many types of water birds.

7/ From the bird hide you can view the many water birds using the lagoon of Narawntapu.

8/ The lagoon is quite large. The dots you can see in the distance are swans.

9/ The still waters of the lagoon contained some unusual vegetation floating around these paper bark trees. Water birds can be seen here as well.

10/ This photo looks out through paper bark trees towards the large lagoon to the south.

11/ There is a huge variety of swamp vegetation on the edge of the lagoon of Narawntapu. This vegetation supports a huge variety of wildlife.

12/ The track continues on towards Archers Knob. This is the hill seen here beyond the walker.

13/ This photo shows the track up Archer's Knob. This view is East towards Bakers Beach and Little Badger Head Point. The furtherest point that you can see is Badger Head Point.

14/ This photo is looking south from Archer's Knob to the hills in the southern part Narawntapu.

15/ This photo is looking west from Archer's Knob towards the lagoon. The mountain towards the left is Mount Roland. Note the huge variety of vegetation present.

16/ This photo taken from Archer's Knob shows the lawn and lagoon on the left and Baker's Beach on the right. At sunset the lawn is a great place to see wombats and kangaroos.

17/ This photo from Archer's Knob is looking south west over the lawn towards the distant hills.