

#5 a teeny milestone
It's been a while. The journey continues...
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Sep 21, 2021


#5 the end of the road
When I left my guardian angel Trish in Braidwood on Tuesday afternoon, I was in a hurry. I'd intended to buy a takeaway dinner in...
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Mar 6, 2019


#4 Gold at Braidwood
Promising to speak soon, Trisha and I hugged goodbye on Tuesday morning after breakfast, and I left Bobundara for Braidwood on my next...
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Mar 4, 2019


#3 The old house
Bobundra breakfasts include freshly juiced grapefruit, orange, carrot, ginger, beetroot and turmeric. One glass of this delicious purple...
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Mar 3, 2019


#2 Bobundara
What a great few days! How fabulous to have the chance to visit Monaro to see for the first time the vastness of that amazing treeless...
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Mar 2, 2019


#1 Monaro
In the last post about Tassie, I said I'd have a surprise in a couple of weeks. Nous voici! I didn't ever dream that I'd start writing a...
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Feb 21, 2019


#14 Pumphouse Point. The end.
And so to the final leg of our journey - from Strahan on the west coast, through Queenstown to Pumphouse Point, then on to Hobart to fly...
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Feb 10, 2019


#13 Strahan
After spending a lifetime of summers in sticky muggy Queensland, it's hard to imagine a better destination at this time of year than...
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Jan 29, 2019


#12 Cradle Mountain
The very name Cradle Mountain has its own magic cachet. Because of excellent marketing? As significant as we'd been led to believe? We...
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Jan 29, 2019


#11 Stanley and the west coast
We drove to Stanley along the pretty undulating coastal hills which at first drop precipitously to the sea. In flatter country, we...
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Jan 27, 2019


#10 Launceston to Burnie and beyond...
Since we left you last at Launceston, we've covered the north-west of Tassie - easy to do in a short time because the distances are so...
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Jan 26, 2019


#9. Best of Launceston
Booking an AirBNB somewhere in an unfamiliar city is always a bit of a gamble isn't it? Will the park next door be a drug dealers'...
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Jan 19, 2019


#8 Falmouth to Launceston
After a very happy week at Falmouth we were excited to be on our way. I have three rules for a happy road trip: make sure there's a...
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Jan 8, 2019


#7. Freycinet
We anticipated a long day at Wineglass Bay, so we set the alarm for 5am. We drove there, climbed to the Lookout and back, called in...
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Jan 1, 2019


#6. Falmouth
Here we are in Falmouth, population 102 according to the 2016 census. It could just be the most liveable town in Australia! If there were...
Shelley Dark
Dec 31, 2018