Everywhere just behind where we live at Jeeralang Junction there are endless miles of forestry tracks. Some are very beautiful making anything you might find on those famous hikes in Tasmania fade into insignificance. For us, it is only a matter of a few minutes’ drive to be somewhere we can let the dogs run free and walk for miles without any disturbance. Like our road system, authorities have taken to numbering them (so that this one is now Road #2 replacing the much more evocative title, ‘The Blowfly’. It was extensively burned out in the (deliberately lit) 2009 fires but is beginning to recover: the dogs had plenty of bower and lyre birds to put up, for example. We try to manage an hour a day (for the benefit f the JRs):
