Today we travel into the Tarkine Wilderness. The forest is filled with myrtle beech, celery top pine, blackwood and Huon pine. If Thylacines exist, it is one of the most likely places they will be found. But first the wild western coastal area with jagged rocks, wildflower heaths and the cleanest air in the world.

The road to Marrawah

Dismal Road leads to Dismal Swamp

Cattle near Marrawah – huge numbers of both beef and dairy cows in the green paddocks.

The coast at Marrawah

Cape Grim and the Doughboy Islands – the north-west tip of Tasmania

Greens Point near Marrawah

Pacific gulls

The rock platform was teeming with life.

Sooty oystercatcher in the washed up giant kelp.

Melaleucas were abundant on the west coast.

West Point south of Marrawah in the Arthur–Pieman Conservation Area (APCA) stretches along West Coast covering over 1,030 square kilometres.

Leptospermum

Tilted quartzite rocks rising above the heath plain

Kunzea

Patersonia lily

Arthur River meeting the Southern Ocean

The long one-lane bridge at Arthur River

Edge of the World lookout at Arthur River has a massive amount of timber washed down the river in flood.

The view west is across the longest uninterrupted stretch of ocean on the planet. If you travel west across the ocean at this latitude, you will not reach land until the southern Argentine coast halfway between Buenos Aires and Tierra del Fuego.

The Rock at the Edge of the World – takes a battering.

Wildflower heath plain in the Arthur-Pieman Conservation Area

Banksia marginata

Boronia

Colours of the plain

Bauera

Pea

Epacris heath

Couta Rocks

The day continues in the inland forest section of the Tarkine on a new blog post.