Iceage Cave Found Packrafting on Franklin River Tasmania
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I first read about Kutikina cave in Richard Flanagans book, A Terrible Beauty, he talked about how the very first Tamanians who walked over from Mainland Australia made home in a large cave situated on the banks of the Franklin river. I made up there and then I was going to see it for myself.
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I was part of the fight to save the Franklin River in the 80s and It made me so happy one of the most incredible places on earth is still running free & wild.
THANKYOU
I was a young whipper-snapper back then, but had my cousins down there fighting for this country's last free river. one of them wrote a book about it. I am inspired your and their courage and effort ...outstanding!! Wild and free, some things are so beautiful and worth fighting to preserve. Thank you!!
Hey there. I'm 60 years old now. I live in Scotland and have always been known that my parents were set to immigrate to Tazmnia just before I was born and as silly as it sounds, I feel resentful that they changed their minds at the last minute..I truly believe in my heart that I should have been Tazmanian. I love watching all your videos. Please don't stop recording your adventures x
We are able to see the beauty of the Franklin & Gordon Rivers, through your eyes. The wild beauty and harshness of the bush. You have no fear! Im voting you for Australian of the Year 2024. ❤
A TRUE adventurer, survivor and explorer. So underrated!! Amazing trip.
Too kind mate, Cheers!
I don't get sick of this one. Awesome bit of country that I get back to over and over.
Great video! Thanks for documenting your adventure!!
Glad you enjoyed it!
Hi Rob, have recently discovered your channel. Some one commented they’re surprised you don’t haven’t a million subs - I hope you get there. Your films showcase just how incredibly breathtaking our beautiful state is. Thank you so very much for sharing the history and your journey with us all. A privilege we all enjoy. 🙏
Thanks for your kind comment Karen and welcome to my channel. I hope you enjoy all my content and exciting content coming up. :-)
I am thoroughly enjoying your channel Rob
It is just so awesome to see all these amazing majestic places in our beautiful state..
keep them coming and take care 🙂
i love this channel, i am also tasmanian but i think the reason why he only has 100k is because tasmanias population is small
You are doing things most of us only dream about.
Huge respect !
Specky views, gnarly hike and shining a light on Tassies' First Nation people, the Indigenous Australians and their humpys, homes and history is super satisfying and deserves more eyes to their heritage, song lines and Dreamtime. Cheers Rob! 👐🐾👋🔅
Awesome adventure Rob glad you found that cave I was starting to lose hope for you there for a min. Those reflections at the end were insane.
Thanks Levi, I legit gave up too.. can't wait to see your next adventure!
Rob Parsons my next adventure got downgraded a fair bit mate but still a good time 👍🏻
@@Rob.Parsons You mentioned about if anyone wanted to do this what you've done. I might tell you I'm 63 yrs old and have not done anything like this before even if I could do just part of it I would most thankful if any any way you might be able to help me out? I will tell you I don't drive as a result of epilepsy, but it has not stopped me from doing a lot of things. You may have gotten some of my comments to you in the past. I live in Devonport and as they say if you don't ask you'll never know so here's hoping.....Pete from Devonport...(:>{|)
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Oh my gosh, you are one tenacious bugger! What an Adventure (not helped by some who will remain nameless!) smashing photography, considering you had limited power and were really in the thick of it. Some gorgeous river shots, sunrises, sunsets - you've taken us places we'd never ever see otherwise. Well stoked! Cheers, Rob, you are quite amazing! 😮🐾🦘😎
Yup ty
this girl....is so pleased to have found you today......I was blessed to have had two teachers in the 1960 s from Tasmania who sparked a lifelong love of your state. I now have the time to spend my retirement in search of more on Tasmania......thank God for you. I have been blessed to been born in Ontario, Canada and grew exploring the Canadian Shield another great place to be. Niagara Falls is just an hour away from me one of the great wonders of the world. My feeling is WOW...glad we clicked on your vlog. and spend the most wonderful night on your channels.... my subscription will be well used...your newest fan from CANADA .....eh....d.
Thanks d!
... best part - no bears !! 🐻
it's so beautiful and so pristine, what a wonder journey and what a wonderful river.
As tricky as this adventure was, to me you never seemed to not be in control and equal or better to the task. Well done young man. Never lose the itch.
Best wishes for all your life. It's gonna be a beauty.
Think this is the third time I have watched this. Faaarkin incredible!
Spectacular. 👍
Good country it is!
We’ll done mate, I immigrated to TAS some 12 years ago and still cannot grasp the beauty of the unexplored! Good on you for showing the world the wonderful place we live in!👍
Thanks Alex. Its a wild beautiful place I hope you enjoy it.
Such a great adventure... I love the irony of a tree growing through a mill saw. Nature always wins
Classic hey!
Fantastic i was delighted as you were cheers
What a beautiful journey. Thanks for taking us along!
In the 70's Truchanas's book opened me to a wondrous wilderness, that you have allowed me to accompany you through your eyes to this truly spiritual place. At my age now it's only going to be a Gordon cruise. You took me to experience so much more with your awesome adventure. The Huon pines were magnificent to see. I have so much respect for the species and the timber having used it as a young engineering patternmaker in the 70's.
Thank you Neville. I am privileged to be able to share these adventures and It makes me so much more appreciative knowing that others can find the same enjoyment in watching them.
Thanks for the journey...loved it!
Those shots of the glassed out scenery at the end are awesome. Good shiz, son
Great trip thanks for letting come along
How can we thank you. I can only wish that I live 1% of what you have given us. Tassy is a Goddess and you are the High Priest
haha epic comment. Thanks James!
Wow! pretty gutsy doing that adventure on your own. Unbelievable that you didn't see one other human out there the whole time! Shows how remote you were, well done, great video.
Bloody brilliant! So glad I stumbled across this spellbinding recording of one of the most spectacular places on earth. Thank you, you’ve lifted my spirits & reminded me to put my adventure cape back on!
I paddle an ocean surf ski in NNSW/ Qld but that was ballsy work dodging branches, rocks & unpredictable currents in an inflatable vessel. ✊🏼
I felt like I was right there, thank you for taking us along.
Amazing , so beautiful . Rob your films are magical. Thank you.
Finest western Tasmanian country Ordovician limestone odyssey I ever did see well done young fella. Rorocs
Loved your utube adventure! Thanks so much for that Rob. I’ve just been reading Deep Time Dreaming and they talk all about Kutikina cave ( and how it saved the Franklin) so I went in search to have a look and came upon your intrepid trip which was fantastic! I’ve often wondered if you could go there by trailer sailer as we also have one, but no way!! I’m going to send this to my sons to inspire them to go adventuring! I look forward to watching your other adventures!👍😎
Good on you young fellow.
I'm getting on a bit and have an on going barney with the Reaper, and had sort of given up hope of doing this sort of thing.
This is inspirational stuff and relight dreams this south western Victorian has of exploring the Macquarie Harbour and Gordon - Franklin region someday.
Keep it up. Well done👍
Thanks.
G'day James, you might like to see the Franklin gordon with a rafting tour. I know many groups they take are older generation and enjoy it quite throughly. best of luck with it mate I hope you get the opportunity.
What a beautiful journey down the river,waterfalls, big rapids,and the cave,you found it! Good job.
You are an amazing beautiful courageous soul…
Keep going… stay strong…
Thank you, Rob, your Spectacular Cine/Video work is mesmerising. I had my heart in my mouth numerous times when you were approaching the rapids. You are Fearless without being Reckless Exploreer, Who Dares Wins. Beautiful work mate. So glad the Franklin River was preserved when corrupt, greedy people tried to flood it. Great effort to find the cave, and bring to light some of our Indigenous brothers and sisters' History. Cheers from Michael. Australia.
Thank you for sharing your adventures! Inspirational!
Especially this one...
My Dads resting place.
Thanks Rob, you took my wife and I to another place in Tassie where we would and could never go. Age is a bugger.
Love the whole vid but the image going down the Franklin seeing where the land finishes and the water starts and not being able to decipher where each met is amazing again. We did it with Gordon River Cruises 35yrs or so ago. It spun me out then and also today. Thanks mate you a legend.
That was epic!! I actually held my breath for you a couple of times over those rapids! Those shots at the end where it was mirror image were amazing. Love watching your videos. Thanks for sharing
Absolutely sublime beauty. Thanks so much for sharing!!
Beautiful scenery thank you for this video!👧❤️
Brilliant video! What a fabulous adventure, that river scenery is incredible. Thank you for sharing it all with is 🌳🌾
Wow. I've always wanted to see this cave ever since the archaelogical people visited there in the '80s and publicised it. Way too old to do the trip now so I'm so grateful to you for taking me there. You are very brave to have done it one your own too. This is the best doco I've seen in a long time. Sympathy for the leeches - been there etc. Hope you continue to make films of the discoveries you make, but (her's the Mum coming out) be careful and look after yourself.
Cheers, Marilyn.
Bloody great job you have done for us old buggers who are not doing that trip lol but I would to have gold pan down there
Stumbling across this channel has been a blessing 👍
Couldn't agree more. Brilliant!
wow thanks guys, I got super lucky and RUclips pushed out my adamsfield video for a couple of days to new people like yourself. Thanks so much for watching and commenting!
Double Fall is easily runnable for people with well developed white water skills. Under no circumstances is it recommended to run Big Fall, it is an incredibly deceptive and dangerous rapid. The Franklin River is not a place to learn white water skills. Glad you were suitably conservative at Double Fall. Consider wearing a life jacket on further pack rafting trips. Thanks for your contribution in recording information about SW Tasmania esp the Jane River. Take care.
I shot Big Fall the last time I did the Franklin. The river was very high and the drop only about 20cm.
Fabulous adventure and video Rob. My partner (an archaeologist) and I are just getting into packrafting but with the combo of that and the sail boat and the hiking makes this a trip we'd love to take! It's on our bucket list now!
Do it mate its incredible!
Awesome. We have the same soul. I did a lot of similar adventuring when I was your age. Now Im dying to do it again. These rivers are beautiful, their reflections are the glassiest Ive seen. Im glad you found the cave.
Just discovered this channel. Such good content, good humble delivery, excellent film making, fantastic introduction/history.
How the hell do you have 6.7k subs and not 1 million?!
Keep delivering this kind of quality content and big RUclips success is guaranteed
Thanks Matt! I’ll keep up the grind hopefully one day I’ll hit the big time 😂
What a fascinating video. Thank you so much for sharing this with us! As an aside, dude, that soundtrack is atrocious and majorly distracting
You are and will be a legend young man, and great photography. Well done mate.
I love the 3D quality of your videos. Great adventure thanks for taking me with you…
Love getting through some of your earlier vid's Rob, loved the cave and how you persisted in finding it, the rafting, everything. Thankyou :)
Fantastic I am sitting in bed in pain not able to get out in the world at the moment. So thank you so much for taking me on your journey.
Finished watching. This is so good I think they should put it on TV. For us oldies to watch. Thanks so much
Love the Tassie vibe awesome adventure ,keep up the good lifestyle thanks for sharing 👣
AMAZING!! Thanks for sharing this adventure. Can’t stop thinking about it!
I loved the footage towards the end with the reflections of the river and trees ... amazing footage
So Amazing, loved every minute of this video, what an epic adventure you had Rob, imagine what it may have been like all those thousands of years ago with lush grasslands to accompany the journey. Thank you Rob, for giving us a peek into your world.
Thank you for a most fabulous t track and kayaking !
Thank for the inspiration. I just moved to a new country and starting my RUclips Channel was a way I got myself settled in. Your videos give me inspiration to go that little bit further. 🙏
I am so impressed with you and your adventure. Thanks for taking me.
Now that is an adventure! Loved every minute of it and those breathtaking reflection images were out of this world. Great narrative style too!!
Appreciate your kind words Daniela!
Thank you and all of the people that campaigned to save it from being dammed in the 80's.
yes thank you to everyone to fought for the Franklin.
Just Beautiful!!
definatially some beautiful scenery.
I've just discovered your videos and they are insanely good! Keep up the great video making Rob - enjoyed this adventure - so glad you found Kutikina after all your efforts to get in there!
Hi Rob ,Magic m8 ,40yrs ago i had the chance you just showed me my big mistake ,but brilliant to see allmost first hand what i missed out on thanks., realy good video-ing
Georgeous Rob.... we just did Gordon River cruise 🙂 so Levi sent us your vid... just spectacular. Those trees at the end look like they’re floating in the sky!! Thanks for sharing, brilliant! 🤎💚🤎
Fantastic, enjoyed every second of your trek, particularly seeing the cave, wonderful, thank you.
My pleasure Tim im glad you enjoyed it, thanks.
Amazing gorgeous ancient archeological sites 39:17 wow, if you have the eye for ancient history ,you can see a lot wow.
This is a truly great video. My fav yet.
As for your last four words. "I wont regret it" until I'm irredeemably lost!!!!
Thanks for showing us that place and that cave.
I can’t believe how amazing that place is it’s so old so beautiful thanks so much for the video Tasmania is so incredible
It really is! Glad you enjoyed!
So cool water like glass,great shots amazing places I would have never known existed,thank you again
Fair Play mate.. Your Fearless
Fantastic adventure Rob. I came to Tassie in 1986 to go down the Franklin river and so loved the experience, loved Tassie and am still here. Brought back some great memories, thanks so much
And id dare say it looks identical today as it did in the 80's. gotta love tassie!
Hey thanks for the adventure and music!
One day this video shows up in my feed. I know it's 2 years old, but what a fantastic bit of adventure you had Mate! TO get there and to almost give up and then find the tiny little place where it actually leads up to the Cave is Crazy Lucky! I cannot go on adventures like this because I was given a physical body that cannot do very much, so watching you go on this adventure and find what your whole Purpose was for going all the way out into the Nowhere, is a terrific thing for me to watch, since I cannot ever do such things myself, so thank you from the bottom of my Heart, for taking me with you on this trip. I urge you to continue to do these kinds of things, because I never did when I was actually capable of doing them, as a young buck. Fill your life with adventure and that will be something that you can never lose, or have taken from you. Live your life, do as much adventuring as you can, do not be caught up in the world and the rat race to make as much money as you can or accumulate all kinds of things, because you can't take any of that with you when you die, only your memories and your life experiences go with you. I have never regret keeping my life humble and living frugally because so many other things in life open up when you do. Being able to catch your meal, and sleep under the stars, the simple life is much more precious than people realize, but I think you understand this concept, thoroughly. once again, thanks for taking an old crippled man with you on your adventure and I have subbed and hope to see many more adventures like this from your channel. May you have good health, and long life, and may you experience as much of this incredibly beautiful planet as possible! Cheers!
Your videos are so much better than any survivor or tv show crap so real the shit you cop being out in the bush is insane love following you along your a legend mate
Thanks dude!
@@Rob.Parsons thankyou mate just wish a had the balls to do what you do love the bush but anxiety gets me every time unfortunately
Just found your channel, from Wisconsin USA and Thank You for Showing us the beauty of Tasmania!
Awesome videos I can never go where you go so glad I can watch your adventure
Wow! Just wow! Fantastic video!
What an adventure Rob. Keep on inspiring 🙏
You are a far braver man than I am. I get lost so easy and would never take on anything like this. So I watched this in amazement on how you just would not be stopped. Well done mate.
So beautiful. It reminds me of why all States should be supporting Tasmania to keep it as pure and natural as is humanly possible.
great effort Rob Parsons you raised the bar a bit more ,A+ and loved the reflections of the river
I've just recently caught your channel and I'm so glad I did, thank-you Rob that was brilliant, especially those last mind bending surreal shots....great job man.
Welcome to the good times! Glad to have you here
I very, very rarely comment on RUclips, in fact this is only my second ever, however watching your videos has captured my attention. This one in particular is really impressive and that's saying something given the quality of your postings. I would really love to get to the places you do, unfortunately age has had it's inevitable effect so I only get to do next level (more likely 2) down. The Tassie wild is so good for the soul. Keep it up Rob, your efforts are much appreciated and I'm in awe of your resilience and persistance (which = grit).
Wow amazing. The shots at 44:00 are trippy - they are like illusions Making you not know up from down 😂 so beautiful
Well done young man!!! GO YOU!!!
Thanks Desiree!
What an adventure! 👍🏼
Wow wow and wow
Man that was one epic adventure it had everything, car trip, boat, hike, camp, adventure, exploration, kayak
my mind is green with envy
It was a bit of a send ill admit!
The scenery! Love your videos. ❤️
So appreciate or jealous one way or another im hooked on ur adventures
Amazing! Can’t wait to see your next adventure!
Thanks 😊
Wow..... That was the most epic adventure I've seen in a long time. Early 2000s I used to go cave exploring in Awakino gorge Taranaki NZ,. But nothing like that incredible adventure,. You are a legend thankyou so much for making that film and sharing.
That place is beautiful!!!!
Wow what an adventure!
Breathtaking places
I rafted the Franklin with a professional company in the late 80’s and the adventure covered a lot of what you did on the river. Thanks for bringing back the great memories and glad nothing has changed
I am so jealous of the beauty of your country, I would love to come there and hike. Its on my bucket list.
Really beautiful stuff Rob, thanks so much for putting this one up.
Absolutely breathtaking tysm❤
Amazing amazing Amazing 🎉