Seven really good things to do on Tasmania’s West Coast

By John Rozentals
Updated January 31 2017 - 4:03pm, first published 2:39pm
Seven really good things to do on Tasmania’s West Coast
Seven really good things to do on Tasmania’s West Coast

1. Ride and boggle on the West Coast Wilderness Railway

I can’t imagine the toughness of the men who built the railway — through seemingly impenetrable rainforest and across daunting, slippery ravines — between Strahan and Queenstown in the 1890s, covered in leeches and daily facing truly life-threatening challenges. And the tenacity and devotion of the women who brought up kids and kept home fires burning in the most demanding, inhospitable of situations.

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