Gordon Dam

FRANKLIN-GORDON NATIONAL PARK

We had a lovely few days camped at Mount Field National Park which we used as a base to visit the Gordon dam and Strathgordon located in the Franklin-Gordon National Park.


It was a full day trip to visit Gordon dam, driving through what looked like alpine country. Beautiful.




Sentinel Range

We passed the Sentinel Range and Lake Pedder.



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Lake Pedder





We stopped in Strathgordon to see the 2200 year old tree. Unfortunately, it was not alive. It was huge though and had markers showing events through history...



















Gordon dam was amazing. We walked down all of the stairs - so many stairs! The stairs were kind of suspended as well so you were walking on a steel grate - bit scary.  We walked along the top of the dam wall and were able to look over the edge...a long way down!

So many stairs.

On the dam wall

RUSSELL FALLS

Russell Falls was about a ten minute walk from camp through some beautiful rainforest. We saw some huge trees on the way to the falls.

Russell Falls