Also in this route it is advisable to bring some food and drinks for the road. This route is one with several beautiful2 viewpoints, but also unpaved roads, rainforest and a number of small towns. The 1st viewpoint is 15 Km after departure, then you pass a few rivers and then the next viewpoint looms. The Sumac viewpoint. After about 100 KM you can stop at the Julius River Forest Reserve. This small campsite is located in the heart of a rainforest and consists of 6 pitches with basic facilities. It is accessible by all vehicles, but to stay overnight you must be self-sufficient. Nice opportunity to have your own food and drinks.

After the stop you pass a few rivers again and then you come across 2 General Stores and a Roadhouse. You can eat, drink, refuel or just buy something at this one. Then cross another river and then 4 viewpoints in a row. Definitely stop at all 4 and look your eyes out. What a view!

The last viewpoint is only a few KM from the end point, namely Wynyard. The Alexandria B&B is located on the river. Via it is a short walk into town where you can eat, or do some shopping. A pleasant rural town of about 5,000 people, Wynyard is an important regional hub serving many of the surrounding rural districts. The area is excellent for fishing. The rivers Inglis and Flowerdale are ideal for trout fishing and there is also good ocean fishing. The town has an annual Christmas parade held on Christmas Eve, a colorful summer fair and regular markets, on the waterfront, at a site near the airport and a farmers' market on the show grounds, which backs onto the river. For more than 25 years, the Bloomin Tulip Festival has kept the local town of Wynyard buzzing with activities, food, music, artists and festivities. A Saturday in October, the festival entices visitors and locals alike to shake off the grind of winter and welcome spring with joy and color. The farm is a central part of the festivities, with thousands of people traveling to the Cape to see the festival's centerpiece and the tulip itself. The festival is one of the city's biggest attractions for tourists, both from Tasmania itself and from the mainland.
Visitor Information Centre: 8 Exhibition Link, Wynyard. Tel. (03) 6443 8330

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.