Iron Blow Lookout

During a visit to Queenstown, Scott and I drove the 10 minutes to check out the Iron Blow Lookout.

Seriously, words nor photos can properly describe the amazing sight that beholds when looking down from the viewing platform, the colour of the water is a glorious vivid blue, we were lucky to visit on a bright sunny day so the colour was more pronounced I am assuming than it would be on dark cloudy days.

The Iron Blow Lookout allows you to peer into Tasmania's tortured mining history. Gold was discovered in the hills of the Linda Valley of Tasmania's west coast back in 1883 at a site dubbed the Iron Blow. Miners descended on the site to discover much more profitable deposits of copper. They then wrought destruction on the land to strip it bare before deserting the nearby mining ghost towns of Gormanston and Linda. The Iron Blow Lookout gives you a bird's eye view of the open-cut mine with the stains of mineral deposits streaking the pit's walls. It makes for a hauntingly beautiful site, but to capture the brilliance of the unnatural colours, you'll need to get here on a sunny day. Information sourced here

At the end of the cantilevered walkway, peer over the edge to take in the breathtaking view below.

Scott and I wandered around for a few minutes absorbing the hauntingly beautiful landscape that surrounds the lookout.

You can just visualise a time when it was bustling with men trying to get their hands on some gold.

It is certainly worth a visit, another of Tasmania's spectacular hidden gems.

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