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We left Clayton’s Corner before 8am on 31 March 2017. En route, M had a driveby from Robert in his Amazing Floating Wheeled Watercraft who was beginning his fang back to Hobart*. I decided I would prefer to eat breakfast once we had anchored. Unfortunately this was not until 10.30am, after it took an extended …
Month: March 2017
We spent one night at anchor near Old River, and explored the river in the morning in Foamy with the intention of finding some rapids to get some drinking water. M had been told there was a little track we could walk along. We eventually found the track, where someone had kindly left two well …
After a few days at Clayton’s Corner recuperating and exploring, we left our lovely spot and went down Melaleuca Creek, about which I have read so much in King of the Wilderness. I had begun to realise, after discovering a pilot laying a tablecloth on the table in the house and putting out the contents …
After lunch today…….we CLIMBED A MOUNTAIN! Totally did! We climbed Mt Beattie – with M being mule-man under his haversack holding All That Might Be Required. (In a November many years ago he was hiking in the south west of Tasmania and was halfway up a mountain when the weather did a backflip and there …
Just to explain: Clayton’s Corner is named for Clyde Clayton, who was a crayfisher in the south west of Tasmania for much of his life. He was married to Winsome King, sister of Deny King – all of them legendary for their achievements in both working and living in the extreme isolation of Port Davey. …
{* be prepared for some added navigational authenticity, as M has started his own journal and I can now refer to that for weather conditions and suchlike} M and I were both relieved that our attempt to leave Macquarie Harbour failed. The conditions weren’t disastrous, but the trip down the coast would have been uncomfortable …