Day 25 - Around Strahan

Today was an administrative day, household duties and the cleaning of a very muddy car.

In the afternoon we took a look around Strahan.  Strahan township is built on a thin strip of land facing Macquarie Harbour.  The commercial area, a few shops and an hotel sit on The Esplanade, opposite the wharf area.  The latter provides access to the cruise boats, to the tourist information centre, to a working sawmill, a slipway and facilities for fishing boats.

 

210315 Strahan on Macquarie Harbour

The hills behind The Esplanade are quite steep, thus providing an excellent view of the town, in our case from Watertank Hill Lookout.

210315 Macquarie Harbour from Watertank Hill

210315 The rail siding at Strahan on the LHS

The only other feature of interest beyond the harbour itself, was Hogarth Falls.  These were accessed by a 20 minute walk through rainforest along a babbling brook. The brook was showing the benefits of the last few days of rain as were the falls themselves.  The sun was shining as we did the walk and there were beautiful examples of the sun casting shadows as it made its way down through the trees and then reflecting brown, yellow and orange colours from the tea coloured water.

210315 The walk into Hogarth Falls

200315 The creek down from Hogarth Falls

210315 The sun playing tricks with the colours in the creek

210315 Different water depths provide a colour palette

210315 Hogarth Falls

210315 Hogarth Falls 

Administration day means we reward ourselves with dinner out in the evening, this time at Hamer’s Grill – on The Esplanade of course.  Yummm!.