A day in the car today …. We set off early from Strahan as the plan is to get right over to the east coast by this evening – a drive of about six and a half hours. However, to break it up, we decided on various stops. The first one was at Nelson Falls about 35km to the east of Queenstown. The walk at Nelson Falls was only about 20 minutes in total, but...
The Gordon (and Franklin) river(s) were subject to an intense and polarised environmental battle in the early 1980s. The nascent green movement which had coalesced in the battle against the dams which created Lake Pedder strengthened and organised to fight the proposed Gordon-below-Franklin Dam (more usually known as the Franklin Dam). This would have submerged much...
A nice lazy start today as we had nothing in particular planned. The forecast was for rain (much needed around here) later in the day, so we decided to head off walking down the Ocean Beach Trail. This is just to the west of the town and is around a 2km track down to the beach, but what a beach – once again superlatives fail me ….. Ocean Beach –...
Today was moving on day once again, so the usual routine kicked in. Pack everything away again (amazing how much we can spread ourselves out in a room after just two days), move it to the car and squeeze it all in. Then back to the room again to check once, twice and a third time just in case we have left anything – we hadn’t (we think!). From there we...