Tasmania’s greatest explorer Henry Hellyer sought inland sheep pasture. He found something that moved his soul instead — the giant forests and ravines of the Tarkine. Tasmania’s greatest explorer Henry Hellyer sought inland sheep pasture for his employer, the Stanley-based Van Diemen’s Land Company. Instead he found the giant forests and ravines of the Tarkine.

The Tarkine is a wild, spiritual place. An ancient culture remains embedded in the landscape. The Tarkine is a wild, spiritual place. It takes its name from an ancient culture. The Tarkiner people, who once occupied the coastal region near Sandy Cape, were one of three Aboriginal tribes on the West Coast from the Pieman

The Tarkine is a wild, spiritual place. An ancient culture remains embedded in the landscape. The Tarkine is a wild, spiritual place. It takes its name from an ancient culture. The Tarkiner people, who once occupied the coastal region near Sandy Cape, were one of three Aboriginal tribes on the West Coast from the Pieman

Your eyes fix on a large fawn-coloured ‘dog’ with a stiff tail(Thylacine) — and dark stripes. Your spine tingles as you fumble hopelessly for your camera. Does the Tassie ‘tiger’ still stalk the Tarkine? Many claim to have seen it, but none has returned with more than a tiger tale. The officially extinct thylacine (Thylacinus cynocephalus,