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The West Coast of Tasmania is the one of the wildest places on the planet. With winds roaring across the ocean, mountains that are so high most still haven't been penetrated and those that have were by bulldozer, trees taller than skyscrapers and jungle thick undergrowth, the combination makes for the world's wildest and toughest four wheel driving too.
Yep, mud puddles you can loose trucks in and tin roofs poking up from beaches where quick sand has swallowed the rest, this terrain demands the bravest drivers and the best prepared vehicles.
There's a great selection too, from 'No Lockers Bob's new V8 to Glenno's hot rod 80 Series to good old Milo, the green tractor that's ploughed so much of this country before.
There's also been plenty of crap thrown around by the real bandits, the so called 'greenies' who try so hard to lock ordinary people out of their own heritage. Mostly they never see it themselves, or when they do it's from a helicopter.
This trip takes in some incredible country. Kicking off from Queenstown, we took the old Mount McCall track which plummets down to the Franklin River. Then we chased off to the Lake Margaret Power Station, the first hydro plant built in Tassie, and climbed the Boulder Track, a throw back to the Pleistocene era kick off 1.6 million years ago when climate change flipped the planet on it's side.
It was a glacial valley, churned, shaped, flattened and rocked by huge rivers of ice that flowed through here during the Pleistocene era. Now ‘Pleistocene’ is actually the geographical time frame we live in these days. It started 1.6 million years ago and isn’t over yet but during that time there have been so many ‘climate changes’ it’d make an honest greenie weep.
This valley last iced up big time about 16,000 years ago and the ice flow ripped out all the beech forests and replaced then with grasslands.
I’d like to point out that nobody bothered driving a Prius back then, OK? There were Aboriginals living in Tasmania, they stuck it out through at least three major ice ages and one little one 4,000 years ago, all part of the planet’s climatic cycle, but none of them voted for the Greens either.
Enjoy the trip folks - we sure did! In fact I've been back quite a few times since and while some tracks get closed off, there's so many great places to go you'll know why this is the best four wheel driving on the planet.
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6 сен 2024
