Tasmania's West Coast is a wonderful experience for even the most peripetatic of travellers, with its vast expanses of untamed beauty. It is an area deeply steeped in its past with each building and path telling a tale. The West Coast is surrounded by spectacular wilderness tracts with breathtaking landscapes of rainforests, mountain ranges, wild beaches rimmed by the Southern Ocean, the still, dark waters of the awesome Gordon and Franklin Rivers. If you've seen photographs of virgin rainforests, rugged mountains, gorges, weird and wayout rock formations and of crystal clear lakes, then it has to have been the Tasmanian west coast.

Once home to thousands of aborigines, the remains of their stay can be seen in the cave art that dates the earliest inhabitation of this area to around 20,000 years back. Early European settlements brought in the tough  hardened convicts sent to this most brutal of penal settlements, hunters, loggers and prospectors who braved the treacherous seas around to get here in the absence of a road. This region is now a World Heritage Site and major environmental battles have been successfully fought to preserve its wild beauty.