By any reasonable definition, almost all of Tasmania’s Southwest National Park qualifies as “wilderness”.
This post is the fruit of a wonderful walk along a relatively sheltered shore, on Bathurst Channel.
Its sequel will take you to a nearby ocean beach, likewise, far from road or wharf.
All photos were taken on the afternoon of March 25, 2018; the featured image looks north across Bathurst Channel, a little before 4pm; I think the mountain is Mt Mackenzie.
At the time, a little “window” in the weather was beginning to open; without that “window” – which settled the Channel’s only-relatively sheltered waters to “safe enough to transfer back to the boat” – we would likely have been on the shore for much more than our intended couple of hours!
(at 2 pm those waters were placid, but one hour later they were very troubled)
As far as we could tell, only ten mammalian feet walked the same shore, that afternoon.
The “other four” belonged to a wombat. (he or she provided the footprint depicted in the 1st chapter of “Wetted”)
No human “rearrangement” was involved in any of what follows…and no image has been “photoshopped”.
