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Aug
25
2010

We intended to visit for a week to get a taste of Tassie, we had held great expectations for the island! Travel to Tassie was via the amazing ship Spirit of tasmania, our safe and comfortable crossing was overnight, waking at 6am to depart was exciting. We collected our tourist information aboard The Spirit of [...]

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Aug
09
2010

I’ve lived in Tassie for almost my whole life and there’s still so much to see and do, and now I get to do it with my kids too. Last summer the whole family packed up our ute with a tent and a thousand other things to head west.  Our loose goal was to revisit [...]

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Jul
22
2010

Travelling west from Devonport, through Burnie and driving on and on! Stanley – would we get there today?  Then a huge lump of rock looms abruptly from the ocean.  It’s the Nut – an exposed lava plug more than 10 million years old, and a reminder of the area’s volcanic history. Stanley is nestled at [...]

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Jul
13
2010

Two years ago in November [2008] we went to Tassie for eight days and we only got to see the North and West. We were based in a small town just out of Launceston called Rutherglen. We arrived at Launceston airport and the staff were so friendly even the car hire people gave us a free [...]

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Mar
25
2010

One of the thrills of touring my wondrous isle, showing it off to friends and their children, is to see it again and again through their fascinated eyes. And, every time, even this regular traveller discovers new gems. Most praise is for Tasmania’s diversity of landscapes, snow-capped mountains, the sunny beauty of the East Coast, [...]

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