Bath House at Waldheim, Cradle Mountain

Bath House at Waldheim, Cradle Mountain

10 photographs were taken with a Nikon D40 camera and stitched patiently together in Photoshop, to get this panoramic view of Gustav Weindorfer’s rain-forest bathhouse.
Born in Austria in 1874, Gustav Weindorfer came to Australia in 1900. He met Kate Cowle in Victoria and they both moved to Tasmania where they married in 1906, spending their honeymoon on Mount Roland.

They bought a 100 acre farm at Kindred and settled down to farming. In 1909 Weindorfer and Charlie Sutton camped at Dove Lake and on the 4th of January 1910 Gustav, Kate and Ronnie Smith climbed Cradle Mountain. Kate Weindorfer thus became the first white woman to climb Cradle Mountain.

According to Ronnie Smith, as they rested on the 1545 meter summit Gustav Weindorfer proclaimed “This must be a national park for the people for all time. It is magnificent, and people must know about it and enjoy it.”

Gustav Weindorfer bought land in Cradle Valley in the late summer of 1910. In 1912 he started building his alpine chalet Waldheim, which means “forest home” and received his first guests in late 1912.
Kate Weindorfer died in April 1916 and Gustav Weindorfer died in May 1932, but during his lifetime his vision of a National Park became a reality when in 1922 an area of 158,000 acres from Cradle Mountain to Lake St.Clair was proclaimed a “Scenic Reserve and Wildlife Sanctuary.”
There is a book called ‘Kate Weindorfer’, the women behind the Man, which is fascinating. Sadly, this forest is now endangered due to climate change.
Note: Tasmania is an Island south of Australia.

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