Franklin & Gordon River National Park.

Let me take you on an modern Australian History lesson. It was in the late 70's early 80's that the Tasmanian government had already screwed with Lake Pedder and now they had the Gordon and Franklin rivers in their sights, the plan, was to dam this pristine river.

After much protest from thousands of people and popular opinion against the Dam the federal Labour government stepped in and had the area declared a world heritage National park, and this stoped The Tasmanian government in their tracks, however not before taking the Federal government to the High Court, lucky for us and the environment the High court ruled in favour of the Federal government and this area remains in its free flowing state.

Today I had the pleasure of doing a cruise that lasted 6 hours through this area, I even got to do a tour around St Helena Island that was used as a penal settlement for convicts that offended in Australia, it was used for that purpose until Port Arthur was built. I would recommend to anyone that travels to Tasmania to make the trip to Strahan and to take the cruise, it is informative and interesting.

Well I only have till next Saturday left in Tasmania so tomorrow I begin the journey back up to the North Of Tasmania, I should be in Stanley by late tomorrow afternoon and will camp there until Wednesday.