Tasmania

Macquarie Harbour

An darly start for the day had us down at Strahan Wharf for a boat cruise around Macqquarie Harbour and the Gordon River. Macquarie Harbour is a shallow glacier created fjord. It is much larger than Sydney Harbour and approximately 315 square kilometres in area with an average depth of 15 metres. In some places […]

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Tasmania

Queenstown and Strahan

We had a quick look at Zeehan before leaving for Queenstown this morning. Zeehan is a classic “mining boom” town. Down the main street it has a run of half a dozen buildings which show its past mining affluence. Sadly the former grandeur of the town has now been been diluted with new buildings and […]

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Tasmania

Mining, Forests and Tasmanian Rivers.

Today, we drove from Stanley, south to the mining town of Zeehan. Our day was rich with mining towns, forests and rivers in this remote part of Western Tasmania. We began in the morning by driving back along the picturesque north coast of Tasmania to Wynyard. We relocated from the ‘Fresh Air Capital of the […]

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Tasmania’s Not So Wild West Coast

When the wind is strong, the seas along Tasmania’s west coast are rough and tempestuous. However, for us, the weather has been idyllic with only gentle breezes and lots of sunshine. Yesterday, we travelled from Stanley to Arthutr River and return but first, we took some time to explore the little town of Stanley. It […]

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Tasmania

From the Mountains to. the Sea at Stanley

It was cool this morning at Cradle Mountain – about 8C. I had a hearty beakfast fiollowed by a short walk along the Enchanted Walk that winds through the forest and returns to to Cradle Mountain Lodge along Pencil Pine Creek. Unfortunately it had a number of steps along the way so it wasn’t suitable […]

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Our Drive to Cradle Mountain

It seems that a very short distance will expose you to completely different environments in Tasmania. Yesterday, we travelled a little over 120 kilometres to get from Devonport to Cradle Mountain and found ourselves in completey worlds Along the way, we passed through several little towns that have invented some feature, other, that will help […]

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Tasmania

Exploring Devonport and Surrounds

Devonport is the third largest city in Tasmania with its fortunes based on the fact that it is the port for the Spirit of Tasmania ferry from Melbourne. Consequently it’s known as “The Gateway to Tasmania”. The fertile district around the Devonport area is known as “Australia’s market garden”. It ihas mild summers and cool, […]

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Tasmania

We Are All At Sea

Today is the start of our three-week long trip to Tasmania, although we left home yesterday to stay overnight in Geelong because of the early time of check in for the departure of the ferry to Devonport. I haven’t been to the You Yang Ranges for many years so we dropped in for a quick […]

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Local Getaways

More Exploration Around Creswick

We had a lot of rain overnight and  we watched it move across our area this morning on the weather radar on my phone. It had cleared by mid morning so we were clear to do some more exploring. Rather than head west as we did yesterday, today we drove north towards Castlemaine. Our first […]

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Local Getaways

Revisiting Central Victoria’s Gold Towns

As someone who prefers landscape photography, this area around Creswick is a bit frustrating. There is very little stunning scenery – just a lot of ‘goldfields country’ that is characterised by scraggly forest of box and ironbark trees. The topography is rather flat and the soil is a golden colour that is very stony and […]

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Today’s Tour Through Some of Victoria’s Early Gold Mining Towns

We’ve taken a few days off to spend at the old goldfields town of Creswick, near Ballarat. It’s nice to get out of Melbourne although the city sprawl is now so large that it took us well over hour. to feel that we had reached the end of suburbia. It’s easy travelling along the Western […]

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Every Day Life

Things I Don’t Understand

There are many things that I don’t understand.Advanced mathematics, quantum physics, and complex philosophical concepts are quite beyond me. I don’t understand the intense attitudes and ignorance of vocal racists. I have no idea why my wife waits until I have just walked out of the room before calling me back and telling me that […]

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