“Set beside a sheltering forest of myrtle, beech and pine on a crest overlooking the tumbling spray of Loose Leaf Creek, the building is a modern replica of the forest home built by Gustav Weindorfer, an Austrian immigrant, and his Tasmanian-born wife Kate (Cowle). Both mad botanists, they fell for each other over the piano – he sang, she played – while classifying the native plants they’d collected on excursions through bush, heathlands and coastal shores. She climbed mountains, at a time when few women dared; he grew up at the foot of the Austrian alps. Their passion lit an urge to save a corner of the planet when they climbed the Cradle summit in January 1910 with Ron Smith, who names the creek, and the one other bushman. Kate became the first white woman to reach a rooftop monopolised by lizards and eagles. Their ‘Eureka’ yell of discovery stirred the impulse to share this extraordinary panorama. Others might have kept such wonder secret, hidden from the world’s intrusive glare. Gustav and Kate shouted for others to see the glory, sketching out loud an off-the-cuff idea for a tourism venture in a national park open to all. … what I felt in my bones was the urge to write about this couple since my acquaintance with their pluck, ingenuity and far-sightedness fuelled a yearning to know more.” Page 4, Kindred: A Cradle Mountain love story by Kate Legge. The town of Sheffield on the way to Cradle Mountain National Park showcases this history and beauty in many murals.