Strahan - Main Street

From the looks of this business facade below, Strahan looks just about any other Australian coastal town with tourist income. But while historically, Strahan was a port for the shipping out of copper from Queenstown and timber from the interior, it is now largely dominated by tourism controlled by Pure Tasmania.

Strip of short order restaurants and pubs.

View from Strahan lookout

Centre of tourist activity, Pure Tasmania's booking agents for historic railway ride and Gordon River cruises

Information Centre

Actors' Company with longest running play in Australia.
(We went.)

There is still fishing going on here.

The most profitable fishing is for crayfish. We couldn't get any locally in the restaurants, because the crayfish could be more profitably sold overseas.

This Japanese gun was captured in 1945 in Hong Kong by the H.M.A.S. Strahan. It was later presented by the ship's crew to the town of Strahan.

This Piner's punt is a fine example of quality workmanship and also illustrates the resilience of King Billie pine to weathering.

This is the view of the historic railway station from "downtown" Strahan.

The trail which roughly followed the shore line was about 50 meters from Piners Loft.

It was shady and protected for much of the way.

There were some beautiful flowers along the trail.

It was about a 15 minute walk from Piners Loft to the Railway Station via the trail.

Disused track switch