Strahan
Several little walks and look outs.
Distance: 300km
Finally left Hobart, going out west to Strahan.
This day we did a lot of little walks through the island's oldest forest parks. I've previously mentioned just about everything I was told about the trees. Most of the day was driving us towards Strahan, a small fishing town.
We passed through a number of nearly abandoned towns- places where people have been, or do, mine for various metals. There was even one town were, to fuel their furnaces, they're stripped hills of all of their timber, resulting in landslides, making the hills bare and rocky.
The next day we also did a few walks out and about.
We got the Fatman Barge over the Pieman River. The river was named after a convict- a baker who escaped, but couldn't swim, so was caught at this river. Clever name for the barge though.
In the evening we got out the barbecue and each bought a variety of meats from the local supermarket.
These two days were nice, pretty, sociable, but not all that so note worthy.
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