Veronika Wild

A bit blurry  - it's drizzling again and I haven't dared to take the new camera out Day 3 – I restock and refuel in Smithton then head inland to Julius River. There are two ways to get there. At the cross roads it says Kanunnah Bridge both ways, except one sign says 65 Km and the other says 15 Km. Puzzled I take the shorter one. Both are part of the route you can take if you do the Tarkine/ Western Explorer Road which goes through to Corinna and Zeehan in the south.      I am pleased to discover that unlike the rest of that road, both of these appear to be sealed, though the right hand branch which I take is only marginally so. Apart from dodging fully laden log trucks, it’s full of potholes and also has those Devil grids I encountered on the way to Arthur River. They needn’t have bothered. The potholes do the job just as well and I rarely manage more than 20 km per hour.  A few fungi, but lichens and mosses rule here. According to the signage ...

Leaving the known world Wherever the Central Plateau – that rocky shield which occupies much of the centre of Tasmania, dips down towards the sea, you are likely to find spectacular gorges and waterfalls. I had already seen some of the more famous ones – Liffey Falls, Meander Falls and Westmoreland Falls, but there was a whole clutch of them in the hinterland behind Ulverstone which I had never heard of before. Passing through evocatively named farming communities such as Promised Land, Paradise and No Where Else, I eventually came to the Leven Canyon Road and then continued on through Upper Castra to Nietta. It is in the rich soils of these foothills, that much of Tasmania’s produce is grown.     Top of Silver Falls There are four waterfalls here on a track originally put in by Forestry Tasmania, but which had fallen into disrepair. In 2013 volunteers resuscitated it and put up track notes at the start, but three years on, some of the flagging tape had d...