Wilderness country

While packing up in the morning we found that one bracket on the canoe rack has broken and the other side was severely bent. We had a bit of a ask around town but no luck some 500m/hr tape and we were off.


We drove down the western explorer route a beautiful hilly drive through winding dirt road littered with the remains of a recent savage bushfire which had this road closed for nearly two years. We stopped to marvel at the huge stumps of trees that had fallen over the road. We passed some beautiful rivers including the Savage river which are completely littered with fallen trees. We arrived at Corina and old timer/gold town from the mid 1800’s which is on the Piemann river .


They have restored the old buildings into cabins and the only store is the hotel.
We picked a bush campsite by the river and ventured off on a canoe to the Whyte river. We passed it and carried on when we got to a large bend I cruised into the bank where I spotted tow huge trout which didn’t seem interested in my lure. We cooked on a campfire that night and we shared the spot with lots of native animals including two very cheeky Possums.
During the night Tina had to get up to rescue of Fishing tackle bag which was being dragged off into the forest by some creature unknown. Another spectacular morning has greeted us in Tassie. While packing up we noticed that some stuff was missing my canoe shoes & gloves. Well how silly am I they have a sign on the cabins we saw that says not to leave your shoes out overnight cause the Devils will take them. Bloody smelly shoes good luck to them shame about the gloves though. We did a bush walk to the Savage river which is a 3 hour return moderate to hard. Well it didn’t take long to find it was a mountain climb not a river walk. We arrived there after about and hour and bumped into a couple who had just canoed there and were walking back so they offered us their canoe to take back. We jumped at the offer and canoed back.


Across the tiny ,little punt which cist $20 and we off in search of Pieman HeadsThe GPS cannot even find the main road to Corina let alone the bush tracks we are looking for. We drove down a track which was about where the road should be and eventually were greeted by a logger who advised us we were on private property.These loggers fairly just cut down bloody everything. We had a look a t Reece dam one of the many Hydro schemes in Tassie, it is so strange that in the middle of summer there is water everywhere. This time we were looking for a costal road which should take us to Zeean. This time the GPS has come through but not more than a Km up the road it turned into well a difficult 4WD track with big hills, massive rocks, washouts and dangerous peat mud. We crossed a broken bridge and carried on passing a sign saying the bridge further up was closed and a section where the entire hill was washed away. This was well a bit to difficult for us and as we are travelling alone we must be more careful. It’s a shame they don’t ever tell you these roads are closed at the start of the road. Once again I’m impressed with the Tojo’s ability to take on these tracks.






We drove for most of the afternoon and decide to head inland to a place called Tullah where there are many lakes. We pulled up along side Rosebery dam a picturesque place nestled in trees and large mountains.