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ADVENTURE Want to hike trails, dive into canyons, climb mountains or kayak rivers? Look no further. Tasmania’s north is an action-packed playground waiting to be explored.
T HE PIEM A N RIVER
KAYAK ON THE PIEMAN RIVER Dawn on the Pieman River is special, with the dark, rainforest-edged waters as reflective and calm as meditation. Hiring a kayak from Corinna, a former gold-mining town, you can paddle downstream to Lovers Falls, where the giant ferns seem almost as tall as the waterfall itself. As you paddle back, turn into Savage River to drift over Australia’s most inland shipwreck, the steamship Croydon, sunk in 1919. The bow of the ship still pokes above the river surface. corinna.com.au
EXPLORE TARKINE FOREST Blanketing Tasmania’s north-west corner is the mighty Tarkine, the world’s second-largest tract of temperate rainforest. At its northern edge, 32 kilometres from Smithton, you can hurtle down a 110-metre-long slide into the green depths of the southern hemisphere’s largest sinkhole. The slide begins in the forest canopy and ends 55 kilometres per hour later at the rainforest floor, where there’s a kilometrelong boardwalk to extend the adventure. dismalswamptasmania.com.au
