The Gordon River and Sarah’s Island. A combination of history and beauty. The cruise boat, a very comfy new catamaran, glided slowly along the river. It’s very easy to consume the freshest-of-fresh smoked salmon and lap up wilderness views at the same time! A drizzly rain reminds you of the hardship the early settlers and [...]
The word bleak came to mind twice the next day too. The day had started with a brief but interesting jet boat ride at New Norfolk, just outside Hobart. Just the stuff to get the motor pumping. Then a long winding drive across Tasmania on the Lyell Highway, heading to Strahan. Settlement was soon left [...]
Returning after dark for the ghost tour, we walked through the visitors centre to see a perfect full moon rising over the bay, bathing the water and surrounding buildings in a yellow light, with the floodlit ruins of the convict church as a backdrop. A surreal moment that it was hard for the tour to [...]
Ross is a tiny mark on the map in the centre of Tasmania a little off the highway, it’s easy to miss. On an autumn afternoon, the fine sandstone buildings gleamed orange in the fading light, and there was the smell of wood fires in the air. It was easy to imagine coaches and horses [...]
Sarah’s Island is but a tiny blob in the middle of vast Macquarie Harbour, near Strahan on the west coast of Tasmania, Australia. Yet it symbolises so much of the state’s history – beauty and pain rolled into one. Used as a convict settlement of great brutality in the 1820s and ’30s, now the few [...]
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