28 May 2021
Smithton High School students Kelsey Williams, Hunter Woolley and Ashton Monson along with youth mentor Selina Colgrave, Circular Head Aboriginal Corporation’s Luke Grey, Lesley and Ros Dick and Cheryl Marshall joined Claire and Dean from Aboriginal Heritage Tasmania on the trip of a lifetime recently, taking a helicopter flight into remote, untouched areas of the west coast to view aboriginal landmarks not accessible by foot.
Leaving Smithton airport at 8am the group boarded two helicopters taking the coastal track to Strahan, first stop Mainwaring River where they visited rock markings, hut depressions and sighted shell, stone artefacts and bone, possibly one of the ‘village’ sites referred to by Robinson [Plomley 1966].