Deadly Green-Fingered Friends
So the world is a dangerous place.
- You can get
hit by a car walking across the street on a sunny spring day.
- You could eat tasty
spinach tainted with salmonella.
- You could be electrocuted by wizzing on an electric fence.
Yet... we manage to survive (usually) to live another day.
In Tasmania, nature fights back. A hike through the forest in Mt Field National Park brings new dangers, unseen in today's otherwise mundane world. So dangerous that the only way to avoid it is to not enter this dangerous zone.
Branches.
Admittedly the swamp gum (or for you plant nerds, "
Eucalyptus regnans") can grow up to 100m tall (330ft), and if you can overcome your deepest fears of tree-based fatality, the
Tall Trees Walk is quite a nice way to see one of the world's tallest tree species