Adventurous plane rides for Michael

This was a great day. We took a day trip to the south of Tasmania - the World Heritage Wilderness that is generally uninhabited except for a few crazy bushwalkers who think walking for 5 days is fun. We landed on this tiny airstrip made of quartz and spent the day being shown around the area - on foot and by boat. It was amazingly ruggard and remote. The history of this place is made up of a few reclusive characters who've mined the area for tin all their life. It took one man 3 years just to build this airstrip. The same guy would carry 50kg bags of smeltered tin on his back, through swamps, for 4 hours to get it to the coast. And then row heaps of these backs in a tinny through the surf to the fishing boats who would take it to Hobart port. Tin was his livelihood so if he had to get 15 bags of tin to the port, he'd spend all week doing it the hard way.