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Feb
08
2012

One of my dad’s goals was to climb Marion’s Lookout, the tallest viewing point at Cradle Mountain, while were in Tasmania. It was only 11.5km uphill. The family put on our jumpers, ate a big breakfast and caught the shuttle bus to Ronny Creek to start our hike. Mum had cooked 15 chicken drumsticks and [...]

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Aug
24
2010

This is our second visit to Tasmania and the more we see the more we love it.  This time we went to Mole Creek Karst National Park and saw the glow worms in the cave … fantastic!  Just like looking at night sky but realising that these were just tiny insects on the roof of a [...]

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Aug
17
2010

15 years ago I visited Tasmania with my boyfriend. I had told him I would marry him if he could show me a wombat, as being a visitor I was fascinated by them.  One wet afternoon, walking by Cradle Mountain we found a wombat on the path, completely unconcerned by us. We have now celebrated [...]

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Aug
16
2010

It was only because I declared that I would return that I could put to rest the war within. It was agreed this would not be the first and last visit. The pull to return to this southern gateway of wonder has never left – it’s 24 years since my first visit, but not my [...]

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Jun
01
2010

I’d been hanging to get up into the mountains, soak up some good times and breathe pristine air. The drive into Cradle draws you into real nature with Great Western Tiers and Roland Mountain luring you deeper into this stunning area. We were greeted at our Cradle Mountain lodge by a fiesty wombat. Later in [...]

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May
07
2010

What I like most about Tassie As a formula one racing driver, flying around the world is part of my job. But Tasmania is one of my favourite places. It is planet amazing. Tassie’s unreconstructed landscapes are an ancient masterpiece of lakes, craggy dolerite peaks, button-grass plains, rain forests and waterfalls. And to top it [...]

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Mar
25
2010

Last year in October 2 friends and I went on a road trip around Tasmania for 9 days – it was not long enough!!! We hired a car at Hobart airport and I personally drove over 1000km. My favourite places were Westbury, Port Arthur, Bicheno and Richmond. I liked Westbury for the history factor, the beauty [...]

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