Lake Gordon in South West Tasmania.
The man-made lake was created in the '70s by the damming of the Gordon River in a hydro-electric scheme of the same name.
A very large number of trees were taken from the otherwise inaccessible river gorge as it flooded. Some specimens of the endemic Huon Pine (Lagarostrobos franklinii ) harvested or lost were in excess of 2,500 years old.
While those living trees are gone forever, the remaining drowned trees of this unique species will continue resist rot for several hundred years to come.
Most of the dead vegetation in this frame is eucalyptus and tea-tree. The Huon Pine trees were more prevalent lower down in the gorge, in the deep dark rainforest close to the river. I'm not that sure how deep the gorge was here but it's over 150m at the dam just a few hundred meters away.
Nikon Z6, Nikkor 70-200 f/4 VR, 1/1000th sec at f/6.3, ISO 400 FL ~116mm
Noticed that the resolution of this image on flickr is munted - the actual exported jpg is much better - they must be playing silly buggers again.
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