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 …
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 …