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Mar
22
2011

It is lovely getting visitors to Tassie from Queensland who come with the idea that Tasmania is wet, gray and cold. What is even better is getting the chance to prove them completely wrong. Having visitors is also a good excuse to go exploring some of the further away parts of Tassie and on this [...]

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Feb
25
2011

One of the first things that should strike any British visitor to Tasmania is the sheer number of wild mammals that inhabit the island. We’re not just talking the odd roe deer here or badger there, but a fecund overload of marsupials – possums, wallabies and wombats – that suggests there is more than just [...]

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Feb
22
2011

Eighty-four kilometres north of the beautiful port city of Hobart or a leisurely two and a half hours drive from Devonport, you will come to Oatlands. Approaching Oatlands from either direction on the A 1, you may spy the windmill of the Oatlands Flour Mill. This pinnacle of pioneering success was erected by John Vincent [...]

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Feb
14
2011

As a professional Photographer who travels to Tasmania frequently for Landscape and Wedding Photography, I never get tired of the scenery. It just gets better and better each time I visit. To all the people that want to try something different, try Tasmania. You will not regret it. Instead you will find travelling there addictive. [...]

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Feb
14
2011

Being a professional photographer with a background within the Travel and Tourism industry I often find it hard to be impressed by the wonders that life throws at me … until I visited Tasmania in January 2011. I often find myself limited by windy weather and rainy conditions and after having read all literature available [...]

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Feb
03
2011

What to do for entertainment when you have your friend’s daughter for the day, a friend visiting from overseas and another friend with granddaughter in tow?  Take them to the Tasmanian Devil conservation Park. Set on the Tasman Peninsula near Port Arthur (if you are heading south to Port Arthur you can’t miss it).  It [...]

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Jan
11
2011

Can’t even begin to explain the delight I felt when I realised I had won the right to capture the Falls Festival for Tourism Tasmania. The Falls Festival is held every year in the beautiful, yet not that well known area of Tasmania, called Marion Bay. I have mixed feelings writing this journal as in [...]

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Nov
18
2010

We ambled around Constitution Dock on a beautiful sunny winters day. The dock splendid in the clear light. We sat at a cosy table at Smolt and enjoyed a long and lovely lunch. It was a weekday and browsing the shops of  Salamanca and along Hampton Ct was wonderful, we picked up a beautiful Tea [...]

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Nov
01
2010

I came nearly two years ago to live in Australia, having been born in England and spent the first 75 years of my life there. Australia is a warm welcoming place, but it was also a privilege and delight to visit Tasmania, albeit for a swift food/wine fest with my daughter. Stepping off the plane [...]

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Oct
19
2010

My Family and I travelled by motor home around Tasmania and we had our best holiday yet. Not all our time was spent fishing but doing a lap of Tassie in a motor home opens more possibilities than an angler can imagine; especially when it comes to targeting the island’s biggest fishing draw card; trout (there is [...]

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