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Today, we're up early for a cruise along the Gordon Murray. It's $85 well spent. First, we head out of the harbour, through one of the world's narrowest harbour entrances, Hell's Gates, and into the open ocean, and the roaring 40s. Massive winds, and even though the waves aren't big, the 38 foot catarmaran is still thrown around. The captain tells us he's encountered 25m high waves out here. We're actually lucky to be through the gates, as most days the weather is so poor, they don't come out.
Afterwards, we pootle through Macquarie Harbout (which incidently is 2.5 times the size of Sydney Harbour) and past some salmon and trout farms, and into the Gordon River. We head around 15km up river through some of the oldest temperate rainforest in the world. Some of the trees in this forest, Huon Pines, are around 2,000 years old. This makes them the oldest trees in the Southern Hemisphere. It's hard to describe the view, you have to look at the pictures. The river is a brown colour, due to all the tannins washed down into it from the plants that grow in the area: button grass. The rainforest look virtually impenetrable. It's really quite stunning. I highly recommend this cruise to anyone! Lunch is pretty good too by the way.
Tonight, we make our way to Lake St Clair, and camp in the national park. At night, we had a little stroll around, and saw possums and echidnas. Jacklyn even stroked a particularly friendly bush tailed possum. We bumped into a Hungarian guy, who we followed around a little, and managed to see a Quoll! Quoll are little meat eating marsupials, and are particularly shy, and hard to find.
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