The river runs free and wild

By Andrew Darby
March 1 2013 - 3:00am
A guide chooses a route through the Franklin's Great Ravine.
A guide chooses a route through the Franklin's Great Ravine.

THE shaggy tea-trees on Rock Island are still there: exactly the same trees, little changed in a generation. A spindly branch leans out into the mist and a stubby clump clings to the prow of the rock, just above the floodline. Water-washed trunks lie horizontal, stripped bare by the torrent of water, but still rooted in crevices in the rocks.

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