Undeterred by my friend’s departure, I decide to continue with the itinerary I’d planned which took in the Pieman Ferry and some waterfalls I hadn’t seen before. I take the coast road between Strahan and Zeehan built over the railway line which connected Zeehan and Strahan when Zeehan was the third largest city in Tasmania. This is a lovely smooth road over button grass plains with far fewer bends and hills than the one from Strahan to Queenstown. There’s hardly any traffic on it either. After about 10 kilometres it passes by the Henty Dunes, 30 metres high and extending for 15 kilometres. These are some distance inland and date from previous Ice Ages when sea levels were lower, but the still powerful Roaring Forties blew even more strongly. Usually you can see Ocean Beach and the Henty Dunes from here but today there is a smoke haze At the Mt. Dundas lookout about 7 kilometres from Zeehan I notice that there’s quite a thick haze which has been getting progre...
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