Where? Where? Wedgie! 2018 Day 24 : 24-05-2018

We’re edging closer to our survey square and have arrived at Melaleuca. This area has a long and rich cultural and natural history. What’s spot to go bird spotting!

Michael from Par Avion said it probably wasn’t the best day for a scenic tour as the wind as we passed between the Arthur Ranges gusted up to 45 knots. My stomach turned a light shade of green but I held it down for the landing on the quartzite airstrip of Melaleuca.

We unloaded and have made ourselves comfortable in one of the bushwalking huts. Mat from Parks and Wildlife flew with us and we’re the only three people here at the moment. A couple of hardy walkers flew out and described a windy walk where they were actually blown off their feet!

This part of Tassie has a long history of Aboriginal occupation dating back some 35 000 years or longer. In much more recent time there was tin mining by the King and Wilson families. These days it’s mostly bushwalkers and sea kayakers who visit. Today we can add ‘Wedgie’ spotters to the list too. 

Tomorrow we will load up the kayak and paddle around to Moulters Inlet (I called it lagoon in the video by mistake), and get set for the survey on Friday and Saturday. There will be no daily video update for the next few days but we should be able to get a written report and a couple of photos up here using the very slow and expensive satellite data connection. If no reports come in it’s because we can’t get a good signal. We have an EPIRB if something goes wrong and we can’t get back to Melaleuca ourselves. 

Today’s t-shirt winner is Nozomi.h for the first adventure learning comic shared with us all. Thanks and to everyone using he discussion boards I really appreciate the way you’re all using it.