{"id":1688,"date":"2013-03-27T19:37:22","date_gmt":"2013-03-27T09:37:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/travel.lewisdrafting.com.au\/?p=1688"},"modified":"2013-05-20T16:01:26","modified_gmt":"2013-05-20T06:01:26","slug":"south-west-world-heritage-tour","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/travel.ripple.farm\/?p=1688","title":{"rendered":"South West World Heritage Tour"},"content":{"rendered":"

Today we had a most amazing trip given to Mal for his 60th birthday from our son Michael and partner Kathy.<\/p>\n

We took an unforgettable tour, exploring the incredibly remote waterways and wilderness of Bathurst Harbour and the South West World Heritage Wilderness only accessible by plane or boat. No roads or cars !!! Our aircraft flew into this remote area via the South West Coast. Departing Cambridge airport, we made our way down the D’Entrecasteaux Channel, over Bruny Island, past the mouth of the Huon River and on to Recherche Bay. Recherche Bay is located on the extreme south-eastern corner of Tasmania and was a landing place of the d’Entrecasteaux exhibition to find missing explorer La Perouse. It is named after the Recherche<\/i>, one of the expedition’s ships.We entered the South West World Heritage Area at South East Cape, Tasmania’s most southern point, and made our way west, on to Melaleuca.<\/p>\n

After landing at Melaleuca, we boarded one of their boats, for a boat trip on Melaleuca Inlet and into Bathurst Harbour, from where we were able to witness the wilderness from a viewpoint that you are unable to appreciate by air or by foot.<\/p>\n

We then reboarded our aircraft, and returned to Cambridge Airport, via the spectacular Eastern Arthurs and Federation Peak, down the Huon Valley and over Hobart City. The plane flew through a bit of turbulence dropping about 10 meters (??) suddenly a number of times. I felt like I needed a nip of the Lark Whisky given to Mal from Bec and Steve for his birthday !!!!<\/p>\n

The pilot even flew us right over our new home at Sandford.<\/p>\n

It was incredible.<\/em><\/strong> Certainly an experience of a lifetime !!!!<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n

\"Hobart\"<\/a>
Hobart<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
\"Amazing\"<\/a>
Amazing<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
\"Melaleuca,<\/a>
Melaleuca,
Bathurst Harbour<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
\"The<\/a>
The Wilderness Area is so untouched<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
\"huge<\/a>
huge views… my photos do not do it justice<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
\"The<\/a>
The shortest commercial airstrip in Australia… only a rough gravel surface !!!!<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
\"Our<\/a>
Our tiny single engine plane…. we were the only passengers, perfect<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
\"The<\/a>
The reflections on the water were stunning<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
\"We<\/a>
We loved the swans<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
\"Another<\/a>
Another black swan<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
\"Bathurst<\/a>
Bathurst Harbour<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
\"Beautiful<\/a>
Beautiful wilderness…. a must trip to do<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
\"Bathurst<\/a>
Bathurst Harbour<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
\"Bathurst<\/a>
Bathurst Harbour was the home of the aboriginal Needwonnee people<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
\"Our<\/a>
Our pilot doubled as our boat captain<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
\"Southern<\/a>
Southern Tasmania… next stop the Antarctica<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
\"Bruny<\/a>
Bruny Island lighthouse<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
\"The<\/a>
The Wedge….a quick walk from our home<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

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Today we had a most amazing trip given to Mal for his 60th birthday from our son Michael and partner Kathy. We took an unforgettable tour, exploring the incredibly remote waterways and wilderness of Bathurst Harbour and the South West World Heritage Wilderness only accessible by plane or boat. No roads or cars !!! Our … Continue reading South West World Heritage Tour<\/span> →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":373,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[48],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1688","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-tasmania"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/travel.ripple.farm\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1688","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/travel.ripple.farm\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/travel.ripple.farm\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/travel.ripple.farm\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/373"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/travel.ripple.farm\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1688"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/travel.ripple.farm\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1688\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1719,"href":"https:\/\/travel.ripple.farm\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1688\/revisions\/1719"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/travel.ripple.farm\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1688"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/travel.ripple.farm\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1688"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/travel.ripple.farm\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1688"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}