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Feb
20
2012

My wife and I were residents in Hobart for 5 years through the late 80s. Despite that there are still many parts of Tasmania left for us to visit. We recently returned from a 6-week visit staying in the north and west. One week in January 2012 was spent at Cradle Chalet at Moina from [...]

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Dec
22
2011

It was a beautiful day and we headed off to visit some caves. We first arrived at the service centre. Mum and dad had a tough decision between the King Solomon caves or the Marakoopa caves. Eventually mum and dad decided to go to Marakoopa caves because my little sister and I wanted to see [...]

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Nov
30
2011

We drove to the house we are staying in at Launceston and began exploring. The first waterfall dad drove to was Liffey falls. After an interesting drive up at the side of the mountain on a rough road, we stopped at a lovely Gazebo to eat our lunch. I ate some cheese and pickle sandwiches [...]

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Sep
12
2010

The mountain we were headed for had low cloud about its summit, and we began to see frequent logging trucks hauling out their loads and soon the signs indicated that we should swing off the bitumen onto a logging road, which was soon taking us up into the clouds. We were travelling quite slowly with [...]

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Sep
01
2010

My wife and I live in Noosa Heads Queensland and are very keen bushwalkers. We have a coffee table book called “The 30 Best Walks in the World” We are working our way through it and have completed “The Kokoda Track” (New Guinea)  “Thorsbourne Trail” (Hinchenbrook Island QLD) and of course the Cradle Mountain Walk. [...]

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Aug
30
2010

Watch the video highlight in high quality here: http://vimeo.com/13632887 Tasmania’s hidden adventures.  The lesser known trails at the end of gravel roads.  Ours to discover for the weekend. Driving from Hobart through the isolated, icy roads of the Lake Highway,  there is a nice feeling about taking the road less travelled. We cut through Tasmania’s [...]

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Aug
30
2010

In summer, I started packing for my fourteen day walk. This is a combination of two walks: **The Port Davey Track and The South West Coast Walk. I started by paying for a bus lift to Lake Peddar … the start of the walk. There were three boys who were also doing it. We are [...]

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Aug
29
2010

Cradle Mountain and Dove Lake have long been on our wish list of places to visit. Last September we finally got the chance to see it for ourselves. We stayed at the friendly Cradle Mountain Lodge for two nights, loved the buffet breakfasts! We walked around the beautiful Dove Lake and got many different views of [...]

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Aug
26
2010

We were told walking the Overland Track outside of the Summer season could be treacherous. Wind, rain, snow, hail, expect it all! So we were the most prepared hikers to ever undertake the track. Thermal layers plus Gore-tex plus plenty of dehydrated treats to keep us happy at mealtimes. Well we couldn’t have asked for [...]

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Aug
25
2010

Inside the Walls of Jerusalem all to ourselves, the sun glinting off the gently melting snow covering the ancient trees. The sound of silence and breathing pure clean air.

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