Overland Track Day 3: Pine Forest Moor to Pelion

Getting ready to head out	Mount Pelion West hides behind a bank of thick cloud	Fairies' aprons	Patterns of lichen on quartzite
Much of today's walk is through the forest that covers the eastern slopes of Mt Pelion West	Miniature gardens of moss and lichen on each tree and rock	Myrtle beech	Lichens
Luxuriant mosses	Leatherwood petals covered the ground, but the trees were too tall to see the actual flowers	Eucalypt forest	Through the myrtle-dominated rainforest
The track builders have a sense of humour!	Out of the forest at Frog Flats, and time for a break	Frog Flats, surrounded by mountains	From Frog Flats the track leads through to Pelion Plains
Panoramic view of Pelion Plains and Mt Oakleigh	Old Pelion Hut, once a building for a nearby failed copper mine, now a historic day shelter	Track builders	We first saw Mt Oakleigh from the north on the afternoon of Day 1 - now we walking around its southern slopes
Mt Oakleigh (R), with a fading Barn Bluff (L), and a last glimpse of Cradle Mountain	On the balcony of New Pelion Hut	Fossil hunters in the bed of Douglas Creek	Fossils - a wide variety of marine organisms which I think Rob said were Cambrian (about 500mya)
Fossils	The best fossils get a place on the log. Some bizarre creatures of more modern origin can also be found here!	Back to New Pelion Hut before continuing our journey (only a little way to go!)