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Leaving Burnie city, Table Cape can be seen in the distance.
Somerset. The downside of taking photos from the highway is you get a distorted view of towns because you only see the main commercial areas
Wynyard, about which I know nothing,
other than it's at the base of Table Cape.
and has a beach.
I didn't realise it such a big town either. So make up your own comments for the next few photos.
That's the pub.
That's the pub too, but not the same one.
That's Rocky Cape out there. It's a National Park with some interesting caves and aboriginal middens. (Yes, we stayed there a number of years ago & it also has many evil, biting bull ants which I am fortunately not allergic to.)
The farming up here is mostly dairy,
vegetable crops (potatoes here, I think)
and, of course, poppies.
Going past Rocky Cape. It's strange when driving a long distance, the way landmarks dominate the landscape and signage as you approach them, then you pass them and they're forgotten, until you return in the other direction.
The next landmark along the coast is the Nut on Circular Head, with the little town of Stanley at its base.
From TasPorts website (pdf):
The iron ore is mined at Savage River [on the West Coast] where it is crushed to a consistency finer than talcum powder. Mixed with water into a slurry, it is piped to Port Latta where the water is filtered out, and the ore is rolled into marble-sized pellets.
These pellets are baked in furnaces, and then stockpiled for about ten days to cool before going onto a conveyor belt out to the waiting ships.