We arrived in Strahan at sunset. It is a very lovely small town, on Macquarie Harbour, which is the largest harbour in the southern hemisphere. 

(Here in my new country we like having things which are the biggest and best in the southern hemisphere. We don't count South America or South Africa. Proteas, wattle trees and the Southern Cross are ours exclusively. We also invented the meat pie.)

On our Tassie travels we kept meeting weird, amateurishly  decorated cars along the road, sometimes singly and sometimes in battalions. They all had large flags flying and most had sirens, honking horns or klaxons. Enquiries elicited very vague explanations ... "something for charity". They never seemed to form a procession or even keep together at all: some were in different towns from the others. One happened to be parked in the next cottage to ours in Strahan, so I took a picture. Not at all up to Jool-vlot standard!

We took a cruise round Macquarie Harbour and up the Gordon River in the Lady Jane Hamilton, a luxury catamaran.

We stopped to view a fish farm: large circular pens where they raise Tasmanian Ocean Trout and Atlantic Salmon; then we sailed up a gorge through ancient rain forest : very beautiful.

The river water is the colour of weak tea, because a lot of tannin leaches into the water from the trees and the soil.  The air and the water are so clean and pure - this time not just the cleanest in the Southern hemisphere but indeed in the whole world. No pollution!

Further up the river we were taken along a boardwalk into the pristine rain forest - we were given waterproof ponchos - our tour guide was very knowledgable about the trees: she nearly converted me to the Greenies! Only the certainty of divorce pulled me back from the brink: Dickie has very strong views on Greenies.  He would cope better were I to join the Satanists or even Weight Watchers.