Iceage Cave Found Packrafting on Franklin River Tasmania 

I was part of the fight to save the Franklin River in the 80s and It made me so happy one of the most incredible places on earth is still running free & wild.

We are able to see the beauty of the Franklin & Gordon Rivers, through your eyes. The wild beauty and harshness of the bush. You have no fear! Im voting you for Australian of the Year 2024. ❤

Hey there. I'm 60 years old now. I live in Scotland and have always been known that my parents were set to immigrate to Tazmnia just before I was born and as silly as it sounds, I feel resentful that they changed their minds at the last minute..I truly believe in my heart that I should have been Tazmanian. I love watching all your videos. Please don't stop recording your adventures x

Hi Rob, have recently discovered your channel. Some one commented they’re surprised you don’t haven’t a million subs - I hope you get there. Your films showcase just how incredibly breathtaking our beautiful state is. Thank you so very much for sharing the history and your journey with us all. A privilege we all enjoy. 🙏

A TRUE adventurer, survivor and explorer. So underrated!! Amazing trip.

Specky views, gnarly hike and shining a light on Tassies' First Nation people, the Indigenous Australians and their humpys, homes and history is super satisfying and deserves more eyes to their heritage, song lines and Dreamtime. Cheers Rob! 👐🐾👋🔅

Great video! Thanks for documenting your adventure!!

You are doing things most of us only dream about. Huge respect !

Oh my gosh, you are one tenacious bugger! What an Adventure (not helped by some who will remain nameless!) smashing photography, considering you had limited power and were really in the thick of it. Some gorgeous river shots, sunrises, sunsets - you've taken us places we'd never ever see otherwise. Well stoked! Cheers, Rob, you are quite amazing! 😮🐾🦘😎

this girl....is so pleased to have found you today......I was blessed to have had two teachers in the 1960 s from Tasmania who sparked a lifelong love of your state. I now have the time to spend my retirement in search of more on Tasmania......thank God for you. I have been blessed to been born in Ontario, Canada and grew exploring the Canadian Shield another great place to be. Niagara Falls is just an hour away from me one of the great wonders of the world. My feeling is WOW...glad we clicked on your vlog. and spend the most wonderful night on your channels.... my subscription will be well used...your newest fan from CANADA .....eh....d.

What a beautiful journey. Thanks for taking us along!

We’ll done mate, I immigrated to TAS some 12 years ago and still cannot grasp the beauty of the unexplored! Good on you for showing the world the wonderful place we live in!👍

I don't get sick of this one. Awesome bit of country that I get back to over and over.

Awesome adventure Rob glad you found that cave I was starting to lose hope for you there for a min. Those reflections at the end were insane.

So beautiful. It reminds me of why all States should be supporting Tasmania to keep it as pure and natural as is humanly possible.

Bloody brilliant! So glad I stumbled across this spellbinding recording of one of the most spectacular places on earth. Thank you, you’ve lifted my spirits & reminded me to put my adventure cape back on! I paddle an ocean surf ski in NNSW/ Qld but that was ballsy work dodging branches, rocks & unpredictable currents in an inflatable vessel. ✊🏼 I felt like I was right there, thank you for taking us along.

In the 70's Truchanas's book opened me to a wondrous wilderness, that you have allowed me to accompany you through your eyes to this truly spiritual place. At my age now it's only going to be a Gordon cruise. You took me to experience so much more with your awesome adventure. The Huon pines were magnificent to see. I have so much respect for the species and the timber having used it as a young engineering patternmaker in the 70's.

it's so beautiful and so pristine, what a wonder journey and what a wonderful river.

Loved your utube adventure! Thanks so much for that Rob. I’ve just been reading Deep Time Dreaming and they talk all about Kutikina cave ( and how it saved the Franklin) so I went in search to have a look and came upon your intrepid trip which was fantastic! I’ve often wondered if you could go there by trailer sailer as we also have one, but no way!! I’m going to send this to my sons to inspire them to go adventuring! I look forward to watching your other adventures!👍😎

Great trip thanks for letting come along

Such a great adventure... I love the irony of a tree growing through a mill saw. Nature always wins

Those shots of the glassed out scenery at the end are awesome. Good shiz, son

Think this is the third time I have watched this. Faaarkin incredible!

Wow! pretty gutsy doing that adventure on your own. Unbelievable that you didn't see one other human out there the whole time! Shows how remote you were, well done, great video.

Wow. I've always wanted to see this cave ever since the archaelogical people visited there in the '80s and publicised it. Way too old to do the trip now so I'm so grateful to you for taking me there. You are very brave to have done it one your own too. This is the best doco I've seen in a long time. Sympathy for the leeches - been there etc. Hope you continue to make films of the discoveries you make, but (her's the Mum coming out) be careful and look after yourself. Cheers, Marilyn.

Thanks for the journey...loved it!

Fantastic i was delighted as you were cheers

That was epic!! I actually held my breath for you a couple of times over those rapids! Those shots at the end where it was mirror image were amazing. Love watching your videos. Thanks for sharing

Thank you for sharing your adventures! Inspirational! Especially this one... My Dads resting place.

Thanks Rob, you took my wife and I to another place in Tassie where we would and could never go. Age is a bugger. Love the whole vid but the image going down the Franklin seeing where the land finishes and the water starts and not being able to decipher where each met is amazing again. We did it with Gordon River Cruises 35yrs or so ago. It spun me out then and also today. Thanks mate you a legend.

What a beautiful journey down the river,waterfalls, big rapids,and the cave,you found it! Good job.

I love the 3D quality of your videos. Great adventure thanks for taking me with you…

Good on you young fellow. I'm getting on a bit and have an on going barney with the Reaper, and had sort of given up hope of doing this sort of thing. This is inspirational stuff and relight dreams this south western Victorian has of exploring the Macquarie Harbour and Gordon - Franklin region someday. Keep it up. Well done👍 Thanks.

Just discovered this channel. Such good content, good humble delivery, excellent film making, fantastic introduction/history. How the hell do you have 6.7k subs and not 1 million?! Keep delivering this kind of quality content and big RU-vid success is guaranteed

How can we thank you. I can only wish that I live 1% of what you have given us. Tassy is a Goddess and you are the High Priest

Thank for the inspiration. I just moved to a new country and starting my RU-vid Channel was a way I got myself settled in. Your videos give me inspiration to go that little bit further. 🙏

Absolutely sublime beauty. Thanks so much for sharing!!

Spectacular. 👍

I am so impressed with you and your adventure. Thanks for taking me.

Stumbling across this channel has been a blessing 👍

Hi Rob ,Magic m8 ,40yrs ago i had the chance you just showed me my big mistake ,but brilliant to see allmost first hand what i missed out on thanks., realy good video-ing

Awesome. We have the same soul. I did a lot of similar adventuring when I was your age. Now Im dying to do it again. These rivers are beautiful, their reflections are the glassiest Ive seen. Im glad you found the cave.

Love getting through some of your earlier vid's Rob, loved the cave and how you persisted in finding it, the rafting, everything. Thankyou :)

As tricky as this adventure was, to me you never seemed to not be in control and equal or better to the task. Well done young man. Never lose the itch. Best wishes for all your life. It's gonna be a beauty.

Georgeous Rob.... we just did Gordon River cruise 🙂 so Levi sent us your vid... just spectacular. Those trees at the end look like they’re floating in the sky!! Thanks for sharing, brilliant! 🤎💚🤎

Amazing , so beautiful . Rob your films are magical. Thank you.

Mate put me onto you, first time viewer, won't be my last. Good on ya for doing the hard yards and showing me such beautiful bush.

Fabulous adventure and video Rob. My partner (an archaeologist) and I are just getting into packrafting but with the combo of that and the sail boat and the hiking makes this a trip we'd love to take! It's on our bucket list now!

Finest western Tasmanian country Ordovician limestone odyssey I ever did see well done young fella. Rorocs

Fantastic I am sitting in bed in pain not able to get out in the world at the moment. So thank you so much for taking me on your journey.

So Amazing, loved every minute of this video, what an epic adventure you had Rob, imagine what it may have been like all those thousands of years ago with lush grasslands to accompany the journey. Thank you Rob, for giving us a peek into your world.

I very, very rarely comment on RU-vid, in fact this is only my second ever, however watching your videos has captured my attention. This one in particular is really impressive and that's saying something given the quality of your postings. I would really love to get to the places you do, unfortunately age has had it's inevitable effect so I only get to do next level (more likely 2) down. The Tassie wild is so good for the soul. Keep it up Rob, your efforts are much appreciated and I'm in awe of your resilience and persistance (which = grit).

You are and will be a legend young man, and great photography. Well done mate.

What an incredible journey

You are an amazing beautiful courageous soul… Keep going… stay strong…

You are a far braver man than I am. I get lost so easy and would never take on anything like this. So I watched this in amazement on how you just would not be stopped. Well done mate.

I've just recently caught your channel and I'm so glad I did, thank-you Rob that was brilliant, especially those last mind bending surreal shots....great job man.

Bloody great job you have done for us old buggers who are not doing that trip lol but I would to have gold pan down there

Brilliant video! What a fabulous adventure, that river scenery is incredible. Thank you for sharing it all with is 🌳🌾

This is a truly great video. My fav yet. As for your last four words. "I wont regret it" until I'm irredeemably lost!!!! Thanks for showing us that place and that cave.

Another epic adventure, Rob!!😊

Beautiful scenery thank you for this video!👧❤️

Fair Play mate.. Your Fearless

Fantastic, enjoyed every second of your trek, particularly seeing the cave, wonderful, thank you.

Just found your channel, from Wisconsin USA and Thank You for Showing us the beauty of Tasmania!

I've just discovered your videos and they are insanely good! Keep up the great video making Rob - enjoyed this adventure - so glad you found Kutikina after all your efforts to get in there!

Amazing! Can’t wait to see your next adventure!

Love the Tassie vibe awesome adventure ,keep up the good lifestyle thanks for sharing 👣

Now that is an adventure! Loved every minute of it and those breathtaking reflection images were out of this world. Great narrative style too!!

I rafted the Franklin with a professional company in the late 80’s and the adventure covered a lot of what you did on the river. Thanks for bringing back the great memories and glad nothing has changed

I loved the footage towards the end with the reflections of the river and trees ... amazing footage

great effort Rob Parsons you raised the bar a bit more ,A+ and loved the reflections of the river

Wow..... That was the most epic adventure I've seen in a long time. Early 2000s I used to go cave exploring in Awakino gorge Taranaki NZ,. But nothing like that incredible adventure,. You are a legend thankyou so much for making that film and sharing.

I can’t believe how amazing that place is it’s so old so beautiful thanks so much for the video Tasmania is so incredible

This is awesome! Good on you for persevering! Glad you found it in the end.

Fantastic adventure Rob. I came to Tassie in 1986 to go down the Franklin river and so loved the experience, loved Tassie and am still here. Brought back some great memories, thanks so much

One day this video shows up in my feed. I know it's 2 years old, but what a fantastic bit of adventure you had Mate! TO get there and to almost give up and then find the tiny little place where it actually leads up to the Cave is Crazy Lucky! I cannot go on adventures like this because I was given a physical body that cannot do very much, so watching you go on this adventure and find what your whole Purpose was for going all the way out into the Nowhere, is a terrific thing for me to watch, since I cannot ever do such things myself, so thank you from the bottom of my Heart, for taking me with you on this trip. I urge you to continue to do these kinds of things, because I never did when I was actually capable of doing them, as a young buck. Fill your life with adventure and that will be something that you can never lose, or have taken from you. Live your life, do as much adventuring as you can, do not be caught up in the world and the rat race to make as much money as you can or accumulate all kinds of things, because you can't take any of that with you when you die, only your memories and your life experiences go with you. I have never regret keeping my life humble and living frugally because so many other things in life open up when you do. Being able to catch your meal, and sleep under the stars, the simple life is much more precious than people realize, but I think you understand this concept, thoroughly. once again, thanks for taking an old crippled man with you on your adventure and I have subbed and hope to see many more adventures like this from your channel. May you have good health, and long life, and may you experience as much of this incredibly beautiful planet as possible! Cheers!

So cool water like glass,great shots amazing places I would have never known existed,thank you again

Thank you for a most fabulous t track and kayaking !

definatially some beautiful scenery.

EPIC TRIP, thumbs up dude. More so be proud of yourself for getting thru and having an awesome journey to share.

Hey thanks for the adventure and music!

Unreal Rob. Nothing wrong with the cinematography here. Those shots coming down the Gordon, holy Fcuk. Huge effort mate. keep them coming👌🏻

What an adventure Rob. Keep on inspiring 🙏

Your videos are so much better than any survivor or tv show crap so real the shit you cop being out in the bush is insane love following you along your a legend mate

The scenery! Love your videos. ❤️

Wow amazing. The shots at 44:00 are trippy - they are like illusions Making you not know up from down 😂 so beautiful

Perfect usage of Seven Lions! ❤❤❤ Loving discovering your channel!

Really beautiful stuff Rob, thanks so much for putting this one up.

Great video. Always enjoy your explorations.

Great video once again Thanks Rob. Don't forget to invite me next time you Go on adventure to the south west. I'm a local lad myself. Based in Hobart. More videos like this particular one would be awesome. Secret caves and all these rumoured places that I have heard of . This beautiful place that we get to call home is the bloody Last of the wildest country in the world and we still have it. Well most of it. Keep up the good work Rob Parsons

Well done Rob. Very well prepared as well. havnt been there since the eighties and missed the caves. Happy to join in on a trip or two

Thank you and all of the people that campaigned to save it from being dammed in the 80's.

Amazing gorgeous ancient archeological sites 39:17 wow, if you have the eye for ancient history ,you can see a lot wow.

Hi Rob, I recently found your channel through Levi, guys like you and Levy are inspiring many to live their best life on the good side. Thanks brother, your films and personality are truly wonderful 👍

Another great video of yours Rob in rare weather conditions. The saving of the Franklin 40 years ago allows the fit & young to continue to experience rare true wilderness of West Coast Tasmania. A walking mate of mine unfortunately lost his life in the pig trough on a Franklin rafting trip 40 years ago. You did well with your portages around the rapids. Keep the videos coming mate. I can feel your pain in the cutting grass & baura episode's.

Awesome videos I can never go where you go so glad I can watch your adventure

Just Beautiful!!

Wow , I'm living Tasmania,s beauty through your camera , AMAZING

What an adventure! 👍🏼