Contrary to popular belief, the climate in Tasmania is generally mild; not so very different to (say) Melbourne or Ballarat. As a rule, it is a little warmer in winter and a little cooler in summer. The spring and early summer of 2005 was extraordinary, however. Very cold and wet and, remarkably, on Christmas Day and Boxing Day when it was 40 degrees in Perth, we had bitter cold and rain on the flats, and snow on the ranges.
Here we see Collins Bonnet, second-highest mountain in the Wellington Range (only ten metres below Mount Wellington itself) and one half of the two-mountain combination we call Sleeping Beauty, with a good dusting of snow on Boxing Day.
