Today we went on the Arther River cruise after a quite night at Peppermint Park at Arther Creek. We had camped at the Parks and Wildlife reserve. It had a toilet but no power so I was unable to charge my phone, my camera and couldn't use my computer. Still I did some study with some of the readings I had printed off before we left.

The cruise was really great. The Arthur river is one of the last wild rivers that has not been logged along the reachers of the river. In most areas the river is over 35 metres deep. There are sea eagles along the western reaches of the river and wedgetail eagles along the inland reaches of the river. At one stage we witnessed a territorial fight between the eagles as the Wedgetails were trying to encroach on the sea eagles territory.
We travelled around 14 - 16 kilometres up the river before we stopped and went for a short walk in the forest ad had a bbq lunch cooked by the staff on the boat. We were deep in the cool climate rainforest with some trees over 800 years old. It was really interesting.

After to trip we drove up to Wynyard. Tomorrow we will head down to Strahan and then onto Queenstown.