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Sep
01
2010

The first leg of the trip was an uneventful, though always interesting, journey across the top of the Island to Burnie, where we turned south on the road heading for Strahan. At Tullah we cracked the thermos open for a welcome coffee, and had a quick look at the ‘Wee Georgie Wood’ steam train attraction, [...]

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Apr
01
2010

On a trip to western Tassie I was reading The Peaks of Lyell by historian Geoffrey Blainey. The great man had written ‘there was a time when every British investor who knew anything about mining shares knew the name of Mt Lyell’. I couldn’t help but imagine (below) that an erstwhile London chap might have [...]

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