We followed the Tamar river some 50 km towards the coast. Went through the mining town of Beaconsfield where the cave in happened a couple of years ago. The next town is called Beauty Point and is home to the platypus centre and also a seahorse centre. We went to the former and found that the Tassie platypus has different dna to the mainland species. The centren is currently working on a disease that only affects the local animals. It is a fungus that affects tree frogs in Queensland. No one knows how the disease arrived in Tassie - a live frog must have been released into a river. Oh and they have echidnas as well.
The Tamar valley itself is very scenic as the pano shot shows. Click for larger view.
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