Cathie, a volunteer on Deal Island, has completed her own leg of the Tasmanian Ranger Relay in Tasmania's northernmost National Park.
Good morning from Deal Island.
I started my walk today from the Kent Group Museum. This is a former lighthouse keeper's family home and was built in the 1840s. Part of our duties as volunteer caretakers is care of the museum.
I walked from the compound (the ‘base’ area here at Deal Island where the cottages, museum and workshop are) to the Pegleg Bay track. David my husband met me there with the PWS vehicle to put some track-markers on the track, to replace the strips of plastic there now. (We’ve made the track markers collecting driftwood from another bay to make wooden pegs, cut some scrap metal to make triangles and painted these red.)
After we did the track markers, we went down to Winter Cove where we wanted to check for sea spurge, which was previously found here, but has been successfully removed by the Friends of Deal Island. We had lunch and then I walked back, so it was a 10km day.
Photos and text from Cathie Plowman, map by Phil Wyatt.