At the very end of the only road into the South-West, Sandra Brady brushes spider webs from the windows of what is probably the most remote office in Tasmania.
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Mrs Brady is the receptionist at Hydro Tasmania's Gordon Dam visitor centre - a hexagonal hut perched 200m above the forest floor and 60m above the curved wall of the dam.
"I am not afraid of heights but I am terrified of spiders," Mrs Brady said as she, and her bright blue insect brush, painted a surreal picture of domesticity in the wilderness.
Sandra and her husband Brett, a maintenance assistant at the nearby Gordon power station, are two of a handful of workers who still live in Strathgordon - the town established to house workers as the biggest power station in Tasmania was constructed.
Strathgordon once had a population of 500 - it now has about 70.
Mrs Brady works from an office three times higher than the top of the Wrest Point Casino.
Ironically, her husband works 183m underground.
Strathgordon is one of the State's wettest towns and is remote even by Tasmanian standards.
The nearest town, the little timber community of Maydeena, is 100km away.
And in 1969, it rained every day for six whole weeks at Strathgordon.
When the sun finally did come out, its reflection off the white quartzite was so bright that the Hydro issued plastic sunglasses to the kids.
On early maps of Van Diemens Land this South- West area was called Transylvania and history has it that it was once earmarked as the new Promised Land for Jews who escaped the Nazis in Europe.
A prominent Jew, Mr Critchley Parker, died on one of his expeditions into the area and the visionary concept never came to fruition.
But others did set up home in this wild place.
The Bradys have notched up 36 years in Strathgordon between them.
The dramatic scenery still packs a punch.
"The day I stop saying wow is the day I will leave," Mrs Brady said.
"But this place is always changing, the wilderness has its mood swings and the backdrop is always different.
"I love this place but I have a husband who loves it even more. He is in paradise out here.
"He loves fishing and sees his work as a hobby rather than a job. The camaraderie is unbelievable."
Up to 200 visitors a day make the trek out to the Gordon Dam during the peak tourist months.
"But if the weather cracks up they thin out pretty quickly," Mrs Brady said.
"Today we have had 76 through. That is quiet."
Brett is one of 10 workers at the Gordon power station.
The station, twice the size as Poatina, is fired by the largest water storage facility in Australia.
The Lake Peddar-Lake Gordon catchment is nearly eight times the size of the Great Lake and the station produces 13 per cent of Tasmania's electricity.
Its workings are hidden below the surface but the hum of electricity is audible from the road above.
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