Our next big adventure in Strahan was to board Eagle and join World Heritage Cruises for the day. The cruise departed at 9am. We did cover some of the water we saw last night, but still was interesting to hear the skippers commentary and see the landscape during the day.
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| Ahoy Skipper, ready for cruising |
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| Strahan Harbour |
We passed Bonnet Island the site of our Penguin encounter and then went through hells gates, named by the convicts as this is what they thought they were entering.
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| Katie with Bonnet Island |
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| Hells Gates only 75 meters wide! |
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| We made it through the gates, just need to get back into Macquarie Harbour now. |
Next we stopped by some Salmon pens and saw how the operators feed the salmon by spraying out the feed with a water canon.
With some more nautical miles under our belts, we arrived for a semi theatrical tour of the once penal settlement.
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| Gordon River |
Back on the Eagle, it was time for a buffet lunch while heading upstream on the Gordon River, then stopping at Heritage Landing for a stroll through the rainforest and close up of Huon Pines.
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| This is over 650 years old |
The final stop back at Strahan allowed us to view Morrison's Saw mill now in its fourth generation.
Tomorrow... Choo Choo.
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