Celebrating Gustav & Kate

[whynotwalk]

Waldheim in spring, 2012

In December Waldheim, near Cradle Mt, will be turning 100! The vision of Gustav and Kate Weindorfer, it was an amazing undertaking.

I just had a couple of days up there, and have written a piece in my blog here http://www.naturescribe.com/2012/10/under-gustavs-spell.html as a personal celebration of their vision.

I hear that Parks & Wildlife will be having some sort of "do" to celebrate 100 years of Waldheim. Keep an eye out for any announcements - and pass them on here if you see them before I do. Sure, it may be a "replica" building that's there today, but it doesn't diminish the vision that led to the preservation of this wonderful place and its surroundings,

cheers

Peter

[Tortoise]

A Mt Kate walk perhaps? I want to do it again to see the view

[taswegian]

Good post, Peter thanks.
If one looks back to those days and before when people with foresight set aside areas for all manner of needs it is easy to forget that they did that at a time when Tasmania was still predominantly wild.
Yet despite the overwhelming abundance of 'things natural' they decided thankfully to plan for a future they would never see.

In this age of rapidly shrinking space and given the increasing pace this has taken over recent years one can only wonder what another 100 years will look like.

I often ponder on these things and realise those same visionaries, planners and legislators came here from landscapes that had seen millenia of development and that bore little resemblance to its origins.