Our night at the golf club was a freezing one - it got down to 1.6 deg outside. At 3.2 deg inside, not much better… We picked the right day and the sky was blue with hardly any wind. Macquarie Harbour was calm and still - not often the case here. Because the seas were so benign, the skipper took the boat not just to Hell's Gate, but through it out to open ocean and around the point to Sorell Lighthouse. A bonus! We had booked expensive seats inside with an ...

We drove the last part of the South Arthur Forest Loop and doubled back the 30 or so kilometres to the start of the Western Explorer route. This is not a commonly used road to the south with most preferring the blacktop highway a bit further inland. The road is long and winding, made of crushed white silica and so a startling contrast to the dark vegetation of the surrounding countryside. This is desolate country too, with no towns or even settlements to break up...