FRIDAY 17TH - ARTHUR RIVER CRUISE

Having done the Franklin River cruise many years ago when we last visited Strahan, we tried the Arthur River cruise this time. The Arthur River is the only river in Tasmania which has not been dammed, logged, mined or farmed so it is said that it is very much as nature has designed it to be over many thousands of years. The only events which have had an impact are fire and flood.

 

There was one artificial aspect to the cruise in that they feed a couple of fish to the sea eagles to get them to perform, which they did as the photo shows.

Our guides said that some of the ferns could be up to 500 years old. Who are we to argue? The existence of the ferns is the signature of a temperature rain forest and there was no shortage of them as we have seen on each of our forest expeditions.

After returning from the cruise, we explored some more of the rugged coast and even managed to see the wind farm in the distant north, presumably Woolnorth. There is certainly no shortage of wind in this part of the world.

This is not an ad for Land Rover, justan example of the rugged tracks we explored, but it could well be. Tomorrow we head further south to Zeehan and then on to Strahan.