SATURDAY 18TH - HEADING SOUTH

Travelling and domestic day today. We left Arthur River and headed south on a very picturesque dirt road to Corinna.

At the commencement of the road there is a sign which says that, to cross the ferry over the Pieman River at Corinna, the total length of the vehicle/s from front axle to rear axle must not exceed nine metres. I paced out our total length to be almost exactly nine metres and I was right. We fitted.

 

Corunna is Huon Pine country but there are no mature trees to be seen. They take thousands of years to grow so the next generation of large trees will be a long time coming.

From there, we came further south to Zeehan where we are in the caravan park. It was time to do the washing and a general tidy up. Zeehan is a town with a very significant mining history but it is looking pretty sad now. We checked out the only two sites of note being the Heritage Centre and Spray Tunnel.

 

As you would expect, the Heritage Centre focusses on the extensive mining and timber history. Zeehan was the third biggest town in Tasmania in its day.

 

The Spray Tunnel is where two tin mines and associated infrastructure were located in the early 1900's. The forest has reclaimed most of it but a tunnel through which a train servicing the mines used to run remains as an item of interest.

Strahan historic railway tomorrow. Have you noticed that I have stopped mentioning the weather. It got up to 12 degrees today with intermittent showers. That seems to be a pretty consistent pattern in this part of the world. Perhaps we are getting used to it.