This morning we boarded the "World Heritage Cruise" catamaran at 9am and intially we headed through the Macquarie Heads (aptly named Hell's Gates" - by the convicts in the early 1800's) into the Southern Ocean.
We then head back through the heads and cruised down the Gordon River and stopped at Sarah Island where we joined a tour. We were informed about the convict penal colony there between 1822 and 1833, which was "turned from hell on earth into one of the largest ship building yards in Australia".
We were then offered a scrumptious buffet lunch containing fresh salads, cold meats and of course locally grown smoked salmon, mmmmm!
After an informative cruise further along the Gordon River we stopped for a boardwalk stroll through "Heritage Landing", a part of the Tasmanian Wilderness World Heritage Area, which contains some Huon Pine trees which are over 2000 years old - older than Christianity itself!!!
When we disembarked from the boat we looked through a local saw mill, where some local huon pine was being sawn and you could purchase some samples to take home.
An informative day which left you with great respect for the importance of World Heritage Areas to share with our future generations.
LOVE READING YOUR POST, I WENT THERE IN 2008, WHAT A GREAT CLASS ROOM THE BELL'S HAVE
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