Also in the 7th route in Tasmania, it is advisable to bring some food and drinks for the journey. There is a supermarket near the hotel. The route mainly goes through a beautiful green, quiet area where you will almost feel alone in the world. The first stop at the Ocean Beach and Henty Dunes viewpoint, you will feast your eyes again and capture the beautiful images on camera. The first small town on your route is Zeehan. This town has about 890 inhabitants. Zeehan is one of Tasmania's westernmost towns. The nearest more populous place is the town of Rosebery. Besides the fact that you can have a drink here, you can also take a walk through the De Spray Tunnel. The tunnel is dug into the bottom of a hill and has the unusual shape of a keyhole, about 3 meters high, 2.2 meters wide and 100 meters long. It was carved out so that ore could be moved from a mine. Wandering through the tunnel is great fun. The darkness within makes it hard to see anything if not for the glowworms shining from the ceiling. At the end you will find remains of buildings and abandoned boilers - a flashback to a long mining history.

You continue your way through the Reece Dam, the Reece Power Station is a conventional hydroelectric power station. Both the power station and dam are named in honor of Eric Reece, the Prime Minister of Tasmania between 1958 and 1969 and again between 1972 and 1975. The power station was commissioned in 1986 and 1987. The drive over the dam is unique and offers beautiful views of the surrounding areas and the dam wall. Also on the Pieman road, the Whaleback viewpoint offers views over the hills of western Tasmania. It is a very short walk of about 120 meters from a car park on Pieman Road.

Further on your route is the town of Waratah. With about 250 inhabitants, Waratah is one of the smaller towns. At about 609 meters above sea level, Waratah is one of the higher elevation towns in Tasmania. Waratah is located on the Waratah River. The nearest more populous place is the village of Tullah. First you fill up and then you can visit the Waratah Museum and Kenworthy's Stamper Mill. The city was once home to the richest tin mine in the world, and you can discover the stories of pioneering courage and entrepreneurial spirit that have created a thriving community. Kenworthy's Stamper Mill is an impressive display of working machinery that was moved from Mt Bischoff to the center of town. Then have lunch and take some pictures of the waterfall before you leave Waratah behind.
What follows is a final sprint of about 70 km, where you can enjoy the view over Savage River along the way. This is a small Australian mining town on the west coast of Tasmania.
At the end point, you can choose where to spend the night: hotel or tent? The choice is yours!

Information Tasmania

Tasmania was connected to the Australian mainland for most of the past 100,000 years. As a result, it was probably populated quite soon after the arrival of the first explorers in Australia. The first Australians may have arrived on the continent as early as 60,000 years ago. Tasmanians looked like dark Africans. They were quite large: the men averaged 5'6" to 5'7", but some were up to 2' tall. The oldest archaeological sites on the island are Warreen Cave, estimated to be 34,790 years old, and Parmerpar Meethaneer Cave, which is between 44,200 and 34,000 years old. The stone tools of the Tasmanians were quite primitive compared to those of other modern humans. The island became separated from the mainland again about 8,000 years ago. Subsequently, this underwent considerable development, while in Tasmania some techniques, such as those of tools with handles, were even lost. The Tasmanians lived as hunters and gatherers. They numbered, according to estimates, between 3,000 and 10,000 people. There were several tribes that regularly fought among themselves. The Tasmanians, like people elsewhere, made art, including rock art.

The governor of the Dutch East Indies, Antonie van Diemen, commissioned Abel Tasman on a voyage of discovery to mainland Australia. On his journey, Tasman discovered the island that was later named after him on November 24, 1642. He named it after his client: Van Diemensland. At the end of the 18th century, the English colonized the island and took English and Irish deportees there. After these deportations from England were stopped, the Vandiemenslanders changed the name of the island to 'Tasmania' on January 1, 1856, after its Dutch discoverer. The capital Hobart is, after Sydney, the oldest city in Australia. In 1803, the English governor, John Bowen, declared martial law. The original Tasmanians (Aboriginals) were almost completely wiped out until 1830. There are no direct descendants of Tasmanians left, only people who are descended from female Tasmanians and Europeans. The last full-blooded Tasmanian, Trucanini, died in May 1876. Although the island is the smallest state, there are approximately 500 self-contained protected areas, totaling 40% of Tasmania's land area. For example, the Styx Valley is threatened by logging companies and many other nature areas that are not protected are also threatened with total destruction. Nevertheless, the Tasmanian wilderness is a World Heritage Site in terms of nature and culture.

There are two types of predatory marsupials in Tasmania. For example, the island is the only place where the Tasmanian devil still roams, a 60 cm long, carnivorous and black and white colored marsupial, known for its great voracity and ferocity. Since the late 20th century, the number of Tasmanian devils has been visibly declining. This is the result of, among other things, a tumor disease. Another predatory marsupial mainly found in Tasmania is the spotted marsupial, a marsupial averaging 35 cm in length with a white-spotted, light brown color. Until the early 1930s, Tasmania was also the only area where the marsupial wolf (or Tasmanian tiger) still lived, but the last specimen of this predatory marsupial animal died in 1936 at Hobart Zoo. Tasmania is home to a number of other animals that are not (or no longer) found anywhere else. The Pseudomys higginsi is an approximately 13 cm large rodent, which mainly lives in the higher forests. The red-bellied pademelon is a brownish kangaroo about 60 cm high that only jumps around in Tasmania. The Tasmanian bristle-tailed kangaroo rat is a 12-inch (30 cm) long, brownish-gray kangaroo rat that lives only in Tasmania and moves at night and on the ground.

The Tasmanians were the indigenous people of the Australian state of Tasmania. Today, however, they are considered extinct as there are no full-blooded Tasmanians left. The people disappeared (due to murders and European diseases) in the years after the European colonization of Tasmania. The last full-blooded Tasmanian, a woman named Truganini, died in 1876.
The descendants of the Tasmanians still live in Tasmania, but much of their original culture and language has been lost. However, since the 1970s, attempts have been made to revive this culture.