An epic full day adventure. We meet you at your Strahan accommodation 9am and travel to Queenstown to enjoy a guided tour of The Paragon Theatre. 4x4 adventure onto Mt Owen, then into an ancient Huon Pine forest to find some abandoned pioneer gold mines. An underground mining experience in an 1898 copper mine and then a moment of respect and reflection at a site where passionate people made a stand to save the Franklin River from the dozers and the dam. Then we find the Nora

It's been an exceptionally busy time since we purchased The Paragon last July readying this grand old 1933 Talkie Theatre for tourism and a return to Movies & Events. Now we have added our own short promo video to the grand old big screen. Showcased is Mountain Heights, King Riner Rafting, Water by Nature-franklinriver.com, West Coast Wilderness Railway, Strahan Helicopters, The ship that never was, Mt Lyell Anchorage, Lake Margaret hydropower, Tasmanian Special Timbers sawmi

Mark & Pam McDermott are a wonderful couple that reside in Strahan owning and operating Sharonlee Motel and Marsden Court as they have done for...well lets just say a decade or two...ok three. Pam & Mark were young adults when the Franklin/Gordon controversy took place in Western Tasmania. They of course became embroiled in it and often found themselves among company that was not at all agreeable with their opinion that perhaps the proposed Franklin dam wasn't such a good ide