Recherche Bay

Recherche Bay

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Recherche Bay

As Is – Straight from the Camera

We had our lunch at this beautiful little spot at Recherche Bay near Cockle Creek. Southwest National Park, Tasmania, Australia – Southern Ocean.

Recherche Bay is located on the extreme south-eastern corner of Tasmania, Australia and was a landing place of the d’Entrecasteaux expedition to find missing explorer La Perouse. It is named after one of the expedition’s ships.

In 2003, the private landowners of the D’Entrentrecasteaux expedition site sought permission to selectively log the area resulting in a large-scale campaign to protect the site from destruction.

A section of its south-eastern foreshore is part of the Southwest National Park, but until recently a densely wooded peninsula in the north-east of the bay was threatened with logging that would have changed the character of the area profoundly. This 143-hectare (353-acre) area, which includes remnants of an 18th century French garden established by members of Bruni D’Entrecasteaux’s 1792 expedition, has now been protected, with the assistance of a generous donation and loan from Dick and Pip Smith. It is managed by the not-for-profit Tasmanian Land Conservancy.

Canon PowerShot A650 IS

Shutter Speed: 1/1250sec
Aperture: F4.0
ISO: 80

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