Word: irenabyss
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...project, despite court challenges from the Tasmanian government. "A brown ditch, leech-ridden and unattractive to the majority of people," is how Liberal premier Robin Gray infamously described it then; the wires are the first relic we'll see of his thwarted dream. Gray must never have seen the Irenabyss. The still corridor of water twists between high walls of speckled rock, the roar of the rapids lost behind us. Extraordinarily sharp reflections look etched on the surface of the cold water, which is thought to plunge 20 m in places. Clouds of bugs flutter on its surface, and delicate...
...arrive on sea planes to visit a nearby waterfall, staring at our dirty clothes draped along the wooden walkway. Two different groups of people go by before we realize that none of us has asked them what's happened while we've been away. We're still in the Irenabyss, listening for the currawongs...
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