Please enjoy this small gallery of videos and photos of things we love and care about: the Franklin River, remote wilderness and whitewater rafting in SW-Tasmania.
Have you also learned that secret from the river; that there is no such thing as time?” That the river is everywhere at the same time, at the source and at the mouth, at the waterfall, at the ferry, at the current, in the ocean and in the mountains, everywhere and that the present only exists for it, not the shadow of the past nor the shadow of the future.
– Hermann Hesse, Siddhartha
Photos
Franklin River wilderness
On the Collingwood
Snack time at Pig Trough waterfall
Leaving Newlands Cascades
Mirror reflections along the Lower Franklin River
Low flows at Thunderush Rapid in the Great Ravine
Tasmanian waratah
Spotted Quoll
Rafts parked at Shower Cliff Cavern waterfall
Camp on the Lower Franklin River
Rock Island Bend
Rafting along the Middle Franklin River
Quartzite rocks
Reflections at Rafters Basin
Pig Trough waterfall
Franklin River rafting
Heading down the Corkscrew rapid in the Great Ravine on the Franklin River
Cauldron low portage
Thunderush in the Great Ravine
Low water portage at Thunderush
Heading into the Great Ravine
On the Upper Franklin River
Heading for Trojans
Paddling along
Propsting Gorge
On the Collingwood
Inflatable kayak running Newlands Cascades
Nasty Notch portage
Logjam Rapid
Irenabyss – Chasm of Peace
Videos
Franklin River Rafting Spring
Some of our Spring Franklin River rafting trip highlights in 2018.
Franklin River Rafting Experience 2016
This video shows some of our favourite footage from 2015/16 – at Tasmania, Australia.
Water by Nature Trailer 2015 – Franklin River Rafting
A few snippets of the many good times rafting the Franklin River in the years 2014/15 – at Tasmania, Australia.
Franklin River Rafting High Water Descension Gorge / Irenabyss
High water run through Descension Gorge, Class III-V whitewater rafting on the Upper Franklin River.
Best of Franklin River Rafting Trip 2014, Oct 5 – 11
Highlights from a picture perfect Franklin River Rafting trip, sunshine, some rain and loads of white water. The first trip of the season presents the Franklin River swept clean by the winter floods.
Jedi’s Franklin River Rafting trip – Sep 14 – 19, 2021
A very early season Franklin River trip with flowering wattles and loads of pink robbins. A week of no rain between two sizable floods made for a perfect trip. The rain started just in time on the second last day to give us an extra boost of flow for the lower flatish section.
Wedge Tailed Eagle above the Irenabyss
With a wingspan of up to 2.74m, the Wedge-Tailed Eagle is the largest raptor in Australia. A lanky bird, it hunts by high soaring flight, circling up on thermal air currents for hundreds of meters and sailing out on upswept wings, its tail fanned and diamond-shaped.
Franklin River Amphibious Echidna
Echidnas, or spiny ant eaters as they are sometimes known, are monotremes (mammals that lay eggs). They have many features which are reptilian in nature such as egg laying, legs that extend outward then downward, and a lower body temperature (about 31-32 C), than other mammals. Surprisingly, echidnas are good swimmers, paddling about with only the snout and a few spines showing.
Franklin River Packrafting
A couple of our guides spent 4 days packrafting the Franklin River in late June, making good use of some beautiful West Coast weather combined with tame river levels (0.74 m at the Collingwood Bridge). They walked out at Mt McCall to avoid the long flat at the end and rainy weather forecast.
Franklin River Rafting – Medium level
Rafting the iconic Franklin River in Tasmania is a highlight for most. This edit is compiled from a trip we did a few weeks ago starting at a medium level on the Collingwood River.
