Strahan Village

We drove the 310 km to Strahan on the west coast of Tasmania in a little over four hours from Hobart on Thursday night.  We stayed in the little cottage in the center above, the one with the green roof.   Strahan is on Macquarie Harbour which is several times the size of Sydney Harbour and served as the port for the mining operations in Queenstown for sixty years.  A nearby convict settlement on Sarah Island was featured in the novel, "For the Term of His Natural Life" by Marcus Clarke.  Today, it is a major tourist destination, but we found it wonderful in spite of this.  Have a look at the other pages in our web site for the West Coast Wilderness Railway, the Gordon River Cruise and the Seaplane Flight to the Gordon River.                 Looking down on the harbour from the main lodge.... The harbour from our cruise boat.... The beach north of Strahan is 35 km long and very flat! We found only a few fragments of shells on the beach, but lots of well worn rocks made for interesting patterns in the sand.  Morrison Sawmill is one of only four remaining Huon pine sawmills left in Tasmania.  The grandson of the founder was cutting a small log of Huon pine on the old reciprocating saw.  No more Huon pine is being felled, but trees and parts of trees that were dropped by the piners back in the nineteenth century are being scavenged by Forestry Tasmania and they reckon the current supply will last for another hundred years.           My bride on the porch of our little cottage........

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