Tasmania

Australian Wooden Boat Festival

A Memorable Day at Hobart’s Australian Wooden Boat Festival

Two things compelled me to return to Tasmania sooner than I’d expected: one, my good friend and photographer Dee Kramer, who told me about the Australian Wooden Boat Festival, and two, of course the festival itself. “It’s only held once every two years Andy and the king of Holland will be attending”… The Australian Wooden …

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the dog line

The Savage Dog Line at Eaglehawk Neck, Tasmania

“The grey and the grisly, the rough and the smooth, the crop-eared and lop-eared, the gaunt and the grim”. These were the words used by draughtsman and painter Harden Melville (in 1837) to describe Tasmania’s Dog Line, a savage canine demarcation that prevented escape from Australia’s premier convict settlement, Port Arthur. They could almost describe …

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Ocean Beach, Tasmania

Ocean Beach, Tasmania’s Wild and Mysterious Graveyard

Winds known as the roaring forties scream across the longest uninterrupted stretch of ocean in the world – leaving from Argentina – blasting into Tasmania’s Ocean Beach. One of the world’s wildest beaches, Ocean Beach is also Tasmania’s longest, reaching the notorious Hell’s Gates at the bottom of its 36 kilometre stretch. It’s also a …

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