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Flash Gordon …

The Gordon (and Franklin) river(s) were subject to an intense and polarised environmental battle in the early 1980s. The nascent green movement which had coalesced in the battle against the dams which created Lake Pedder strengthened and organised to fight

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Posted By andy_beharrell Posted on 20th March 2024
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Shimmying around Strahan

A nice lazy start today as we had nothing in particular planned. The forecast was for rain (much needed around here) later in the day, so we decided to head off walking down the Ocean Beach Trail. This is just

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Posted By andy_beharrell Posted on 19th March 2024
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From the Cradle to Strahan

Today was moving on day once again, so the usual routine kicked in. Pack everything away again (amazing how much we can spread ourselves out in a room after just two days), move it to the car and squeeze it

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Posted By andy_beharrell Posted on 18th March 2024
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Walking around the Cradle

Cradle Mountain National Park was apparently used for the filming of the documentary When Dinosaurs Roamed America. This only misrepresents the park in two ways, but both are fairly fundamental – firstly it is Tasmania and not America and secondly

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Posted By andy_beharrell Posted on 17th March 2024
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A taste of Tasmania

Around 9am the Spirit of Tasmania squeezed its way down the Mersey River and into Devonport and fairly slickly we disembarked. From there the first stage went according to plan – the pre-loved car (pre-loved to the tune of 300,000km!)

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Posted By andy_beharrell Posted on 16th March 2024
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Meandering around Melbourne

14th March Parked up in the caravan park in Geelong, we decided this would be an ideal base to explore Melbourne for a day. So we headed to South Geelong station where a very helpful station guard helped us buy

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Posted By andy_beharrell Posted on 15th March 2024
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The last of the ocean road

From Otway we headed on to the east this morning to cover the last of the Ocean Road. We headed through Apollo Bay and then stopped for a short walk up to Carisbrook Falls. As with everywhere else, the volume

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Posted By andy_beharrell Posted on 13th March 2024
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Observing the Otways

With another day at the campsite on Cape Otway, we decided to do a tour of the Cape. The advice from the lady at the campsite was to start with Mait’s Rest. Immediately she said I made stereotypical assumptions about

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Posted By andy_beharrell Posted on 12th March 2024
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To the altar of the ocean road

This morning we left Camperdown and headed south back towards Port Campbell. Driving along I had the song ‘Camptown Races’ as an earworm – not quite the Camperdown Races, but Camperdown did have a racecourse and if you sing it

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Posted By andy_beharrell Posted on 11th March 2024
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An uplifting day ….

The campsite we are staying at is called Lakes and Craters Caravan Park and the clue is in the title …. The area has a lot of lakes and craters … telling us a lot about its volcanic origins. Camperdown

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Posted By andy_beharrell Posted on 10th March 2024
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