Tasmania might be small, but what it lacks in distance, it makes up in height. Apart from skirting the coast, it’s mountains and valleys wherever you want to go. Hairpins and switchbacks enough to keep the gears in a constant shuffle. The three big industries in Tassie are mining, forestry and dams (although the lastContinue reading “Down to the Sea”
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Lake Macintosh & The Great Misadventure
The plan seemed so simple. We were leaving Stanley and heading into the mountains to Lake Macintosh Campground, a nice layover on our way to Strahan and Macquarie Harbour. At 172klms climbing most of the way, it seemed not that onerous. Two right hand turns and a left for the entire journey. What could possiblyContinue reading “Lake Macintosh & The Great Misadventure”
The Edge of the World
“I cast my pebble onto the shore of eternity To be washed by the ocean of time It has shape, form and substance.It is me…One day I will be no more But my pebble will remain hereOn the shore of eternity Mute witness for the aeons That today I came and stood At the EdgeContinue reading “The Edge of the World”
Stanley
As this was Ken’s first trip, I gave him the thrill of planning our seven week Tassie sojourn. Unfortunately our first night free camp was full by the time we arrived and we were forced to backtrack to Devonport. It was a foreign land, the day fast running out, as were our options. But inContinue reading “Stanley”
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Tasmania-A New Adventure
It’s 5am at a free camp at Inverleigh just outside Geelong. Your erstwhile Don Quixote is about to set off across the Bass Strait for a seven week sojourn in the Apple Isle -Tasmania. Passage was booked in the dying embers of 2024 and I have a boat to catch. My ‘Pancho Sanchez’ is mateContinue reading “Tasmania-A New Adventure”
As Russell Coight Would Say…..
Well, it’s been an eventful three months going nowhere fast. The trials and tribulations confessed in our last post were only some of the ingredients of the cornucopia of emotional up’s and downs. Two weddings and a funeral, grief, joy, mishaps, missteps and medical attention. Yet as housebound as we have been, had it notContinue reading “As Russell Coight Would Say…..”