Tasmania Gordon River cruise: Australia's convict 'hell on Earth' is now more like a paradise
Hell on earth isn't such a bad place. A harbour six times the size of Sydney's surrounds it, and it's just a handful of kilometres to the immaculate rainforest reflections of the Gordon River, which are like etchings on the water. It feels more like an original paradise than damnation. When convicts named Hells Gates, however, all they saw was a wild channel of water at the entrance to Tasmania's Macquarie Harbour. It was a notorious wrecker of ships, and the convicts' gateway to Sarah Island, imprisonment and a life of hell. But as the Spirit of the Wild catamaran idles outside of Hells Ga...
Source: traveller.com.au