Tasmania Day 6 - Part 1 - East Coast and the Bay of Fires

Today our trip led us up along the East Coast of Tasmania, and to the Bay of Fires! Departing our accommodation, we headed up to Bicheno and followed the coast north.

Bicheno

Our first stop was just on the edge of Bicheno, near Waubs Bay.

We explored the rock formations, as well as the tidal pools. We saw the orange lichen that the Bay of Fires is famous for.

Starfish

Plenty of Seaweed!

Giant Sea Snails

Orange Lichen on Granite

Crab

Lagoons Beach

Lagoons Beach was beautiful. Crystal blue ocean and white sand. The waves crashing on the shore, the gentle sun on my skin - it was lovely. I took far too many photos.

Tiny animals left some interesting formations in the sand -

And we spotted a juvenile gull, perhaps a Kelp Gull or Pacific Gull? (I'm not too familiar with birds so this is what google is leading me to think...)

Bay of Fires

We were back on the road again, this time to the Bay of Fires.

Burns Bay looked like a good vantage point, and so we explored the Bay from there.

We saw the orange lichen rocks, but having seen those in Bicheno, we were a bit unimpressed! We had expected a lot more from this area, but it was what we had seen all up the coast already.

Even more of the same shells! -

The Lichen

Lichen is algae or cyanobacteria living on fungi in a mutually beneficial relationship. This lichen is what provides the Bay of Fires, and the other rocks on the east coast of Tasmania, with their distinctive orange colouring.