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Meandering around museums

Sometimes a day of slightly aimless meandering can unwittingly be very fulfilling. Having no specific purpose or target for the day means that you achieve all you set out to do and today was one of those days! We didn’t

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Posted By andy_beharrell Posted on 30th March 2024
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Blazing to Brisbane

A day of travel today …. However, our flight from Hobart was not until about 2pm, so for the morning we decided to head a little north of Hobart to Bonorong Wildlife Park. We got there a little time before

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Posted By andy_beharrell Posted on 29th March 2024
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MONA

The first adjective which comes to mind when describing MONA (The Museum of Old and New Art) is eclectic. Somehow though this doesn’t seem to do justice to the unique combination of art, architecture and experience which it represents. This

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Posted By andy_beharrell Posted on 28th March 2024
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A wooden day ….

We had been recommended by friends to visit the Wooden Boat Company in Franklin on the Huon River and figured what’s not to like – wood and boats – a perfect combination. The drive was about 40 minutes and the

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Posted By andy_beharrell Posted on 27th March 2024
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Hanging around in Hobart

Today was a day to start exploring Hobart and what better way to do that than wandering around town. We started by heading into the main shopping area stopping at a couple of bookshops and, in the second, found a

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Posted By andy_beharrell Posted on 27th March 2024
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Tantalising Tasman

On our way down to Hobart we decided to take a diversion – a similar diversion to the one made by thousands of convicts from 1833 onwards – to Port Arthur. The differences between our journey and theirs were manifold

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Posted By andy_beharrell Posted on 25th March 2024
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Meandering around Maria

We are now heading south and we had been recommended en route to visit Maria Island, so we booked a morning ferry across to the island from Triabunna. The ferry takes just half an hour and lands at a jetty

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Posted By andy_beharrell Posted on 24th March 2024
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Further around Freycinet

With another day staying at Freycinet, we decided to explore a little further afield. We started though with a browse around a couple of other sites in the National Park. We started with Honeymoon Bay – perhaps not entirely appropriate

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Posted By andy_beharrell Posted on 23rd March 2024
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Formidable Freycinet

One of the main reasons for coming to Freycinet was to see the National Park and, with the park visitor information centre just a couple of miles down the road, it was easy to get there promptly. As ever, the

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Posted By andy_beharrell Posted on 22nd March 2024
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Coast to coast

A day in the car today …. We set off early from Strahan as the plan is to get right over to the east coast by this evening – a drive of about six and a half hours. However, to

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Posted By andy_beharrell Posted on 21st March 2024
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