Showing posts with label Huon River. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Huon River. Show all posts

Saturday, 18 February 2023

A walk

Continuing the walk before people arrived for Christmas at the Caravan Park, along the river bank to the Huon River.  For the life of me I don't know why the rubbish as in branches of trees are not removed from this Brown River.  The views are from the left to right.  A walk one can do along the river to the Huon River through the narrow pathway for a long way according to the children I was talking to.

The video is of the Huon Jet which takes people for rides up the Huon River and back sometimes coming into the Brown River especially if someone is staying in the caravan park and who is on the boat.













Tuesday, 31 May 2022

Boats

Some boats on the Huon River near Huonville and Port Huon a few klms down the road south.



The above photo are Salmon Boats. You can read about what these boats do [ here ]



When we returned from our drive we had neighbours at the caravan park.

Monday, 17 May 2021

The rain

It did rain for a few days and nights whilst at the Caravan Park and caused a bit of a flood more so up stream.  The Huon Jet, the boat in the photo was able to come around the corner of the Huon River into the river that flows at the base of the caravan park.  The sand disappeared as the tide came up, we never had to move our caravan and certainly not wet under foot as we were parked on a concrete slab.





Friday, 14 May 2021

Boats on the Huon River

One of the days we travelled down the Huon River just for a drive and I didn't take my Camera so used my phone to take these shots.



Wednesday, 12 May 2021

The Huon River, Tasmania

The Huon River is a perennial river located in the south west and south east regions of Tasmania, Australia.  It's 174 km  (108 mile) in length, it's the 5th longest river in the State. The river empties into the D'Entrecasteaux Channel before flowing into the Tasman Sea.
Wikipedia
We followed the Huon River then it came to the D'Entrecasteaux Channel where you catch the boat to Bruny Island one of Tasmania's Islands.
At Kettering is a Marina and just *north of Kettering in Oyster Cove that the last Tasmanian Aboriginal settlement was established in 1847.  Aborigines from all over Van Diemen's Land had been rounded up some years earlier and isolated on Flinders Island (up north of Tasmania and also one of Tasmania's Island).  In 1855 there were only 16 people left and by 1869 only Truganini remained.  She died in 1876 but it was not until 1976 that her ashes were thrown in the winds on the D'Entrecasteaux Channel.*
*Wikipedia
Photo of Truganini courtesy of the Archives.

 


 







Wednesday, 10 February 2021

Boats down Huonville, Tasmania

Some boats on the Huon River with Egg Island in the middle.
The last of the photos of our trip away at Christmas and New Year.







Wednesday, 22 May 2019

Huonville River, Tasmania

The Huon River below is a perennial river which means it is a stream or river (channel) that has continuous flow in parts of it's stream bed all year round during years of normal rainfall.
The river is 174 km (108 mile) long.

We set off for a drive around the Huon area, the river is on the edge of Huonville, it was a lovely day and people in the boat were doing a cruise up the river.