We had to ford the Cascade river and of course sent my wife through first so I could show you these pictures. As I was going slowly to give her time to take the pictures I found I could just get one wheel up on a large boulder with water running over it and cause a huge water spout to shoot up into the air.

Crossing a creek on the Derby Jeep track. Made my own water fall up!

Once the photos were taken it was a bit of left foot braking to load the LSD's and some more right foot and continued through. Used the next track in the book ( page 202 - Mount Paris Dam road ) to check out the interesting dam. It is a concrete buttress dam as you can see below. The wall is less than a foot thick as you can see in the pictures below. It was put there to supply a local mine but when it closed down they dynamited a big hole in the bottom to let the water run through. The reason was as no one was prepared to maintain it they did not want it to burst like another one that killed a lot of people. They have since cut huge panels out as it had started to fill again after large rains had blocked the original hole with trees etc. I took a walk along the top of it but is not recommended for the faint of heart as it is only around 10" wide and a long drop to the bottom should you slip.

After playing more power got me through! Interesting buttress dam wall too.

Off to see if we could reach the most north east part of the island. We passed through Gladstone and Rushy Lagoon and ended up at a homestead. The caretaker was in so we asked if we would be allowed to cross his land to reach the very tip called Cape Portland. He thought we would not make it all the way as there is only a very faint track which disappears often. Well that made us more determined and we did make it all the way and according to our GPS weren't even on land anymore but out at sea!

Went for a spin along a deserted beach.

The north east is not visited much by the tourists and as a result it is used by the locals to get away from them over the Christmas period. As there were still a few weeks to go when we were there, we had the place to ourselves and the choice of many hidden campsites behind the dunes sheltered from the wind. These campsite are free and we travelled the whole of the island of Tasmania for the 3 weeks and only stayed in a camping ground twice in Hobart. You can buy a book called Camping Guide to Tasmania by Boiling Billy Publications which lists all the places to camp along with a lot of free ones as well.

Caught my wife in her bra at Petal Point! Found a good coastal beach track.

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