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  • BronzeNW Tasmania 2023Traveler

    Port Sorrell

    March 13, 2023 in Australia ⋅ ☁️ 19 °C

    What’s up here…in short not much. We rode from Shearwater to Port Sorrell and found nothing but a jetty and some bike trails…

  • BronzeNW Tasmania 2023Traveler

    Nude Photo Shoot

    March 12, 2023 in Australia ⋅ ☀️ 20 °C

    This beautiful place was the surprise photo shoot location for Bronze in the shallows of Bass Strait.
    In keeping with our 3 month ritual of cold water therapy I am taking any opportunity to lay down in cold water and this place looked as good as any.
    So clothes off and into Bass Strait. There happened to be a few holiday houses around and one fronting the beach but he seemed pretty cool.
    Pretty lonely place to live although beautiful nevertheless.    Read more

  • BronzeNW Tasmania 2023Traveler

    Stanley

    March 12, 2023 in Australia ⋅ ⛅ 17 °C

    Stanley is a quaint small coastal town quite famous for being the birthplace of Australia’s 10th PM Joe Lyons.
    The town was also famous for being the seaside location for a movie “A Light Between…” which is a tale of two adults find an infant at sea in a dinghy and decide to adopt it as their own. This later goes pear shaped when the mother of the child starts to investigate…
    It is not hard to see why this town would be suitable as it has a large number of heritage listed houses built in and around the 1840’s.
    The town is quaint and set in a very picturesque part of the coast line.    Read more

  • BronzeNW Tasmania 2023Traveler

    The ‘Nut’

    March 12, 2023 in Australia ⋅ ⛅ 18 °C

    We travelled to the town of Stanley which has two big tourist attractions…The Nut and Hursey Fish restaurant which is renown for having an extra large rock lobster 🦞 on the roof.

    The Nut is a volcanic plug near the town of Stanley, Tasmania. It is made of fragments of basaltic volcanic rock from a volcano that was active about 25–70 million years ago. It has an elevation of 143 metres (469 ft) above sea level. The areas around it are culturally significant to the local Tarkine Aboriginal people because of stone formations, middens, quarries and artefact scatters near the area.

    The European discovery of the Nut was made by George Bass and Matthew Flinders when they circumnavigated Tasmania in the sloop Norfolk. The origins of its name are speculated to be from the Tasmanian Aboriginal name, "munatrik" (moo-nut-re-ker).

    It is a steep short walk to the top and it is also possible to take a chair lift as well. It is a nesting place for mutton birds who dig burrows to hatch their chicks. The mountain has an exposed and a protected side which allows a different bio diversity of vegetation with some taller trees.
    As you can see there are some magnificent views of the surrounding town of Stanley which sits at the base of the ‘Nut’.

    We ordered a seafood basket for 2 and was unable to finish it and so the seagulls had an extra helping.
    The fish was so fresh and it was some of the best fish and a chips I have eaten.    Read more

  • BronzeNW Tasmania 2023Traveler

    Burnie

    March 12, 2023 in Australia ⋅ ☀️ 15 °C

    We travelled to Burnie on the way to visiting the ‘Nut’ (more on that later) and had some breakfast at a cafe just on the beach.
    Burnie is a port city on the north-west coast of Tasmania, Australia. When founded in 1827, it was named Emu Bay, being renamed after William Burnie, a director of the Van Diemen's Land Company, in the early 1840s.

    I also remember a Midnight Oil song called Burnie and suspect it relates to the following…
    The key industries are heavy manufacturing, forestry and farming. The Burnie port along with the forestry industry provides the main source of revenue for the city. Burnie was the main port for the west coast mines after the opening of the Emu Bay Railway in 1897. Most industry in Burnie was based around the railway and the port that served it.

    After the handover of the Surrey Hills and Hampshire Hills lots, the agriculture industry was largely replaced by forestry. The influence of forestry had a major role on Burnie's development in the 1900s with the founding of the pulp and paper mill by Associated Pulp and Paper Mills in 1938 and the woodchip terminal in the later part of the century.

    It also has a thriving population of little penguins along this section of the coastline with many burrows along the foreshore as well as an interesting breakwater which sits off the jetty area designed to protect the ships when loading cargo.    Read more

  • BronzeMetungTraveler

    Raymond Island

    January 7, 2023 in Australia ⋅ 🌙 17 °C

    Raymond Island (Gunai/Kurnai language: Bunjil-baul) is a small island in the Gippsland Lakes in eastern Victoria, Australia, about 300 km (190 mi) from Melbourne. The island is approximately 6 km (3.7 mi) long by 2 km (1.2 mi) wide, and is just 200 m (660 ft) off the coast, across from the town of Paynesville. The island is named after William Odell Raymond, originally a magistrate from New South Wales, who established himself as a squatter in Gippsland in the 1840s.

    Raymond Island is well known locally for its large koala population, originally introduced to the island in 1953, and for the Raymond Island Ferry, a chain ferry that links the island to Paynesville on the mainland.    Read more

  • BronzeMetungTraveler

    Raymond Island

    January 7, 2023 in Australia ⋅ 🌙 17 °C

    Raymond Island is a quiet little island that is located just across a stretch of water from the town of Metung.
    It has a relatively large population of Koalas and we were able to get some good shots of the local boys.
    Of course Koala populations are somewhat endangered due to a host of different factors so it was cool to see so many in one place.
    The island is very quiet and attracts many retirees who are keen on fishing and relaxing 😎.
    We met such a couple who had recently opened a coffee van and because it was the only one on the island was doing a very busy trade 👌    Read more

  • BronzeMetungTraveler

    Metung (cont’d)

    January 6, 2023 in Australia ⋅ ⛅ 17 °C

    This was the day that Ace first encountered an Echidna…didn’t quite know what to make of it and had some fun in the process.
    Discovered a bee colony in an old tree trunk which was cool as well as some Pied Oyster Catchers along the edge of the lake.
    Today we also discovered that Ace is, in fact, a reasonable swimmer as he took to the water trying to retrieve a ball and almost did.
    Of course, the ball was not his :)

    We also spent our last night in Metung at the local Pub before travelling to Raymond Island for the last couple of days of our trip.
    The pub is nestled on the foreshore and it is interesting to watch the different boats come to the pier to replenish supplies.    Read more

  • BronzeMetungTraveler

    Metung

    January 1, 2023 in Australia ⋅ ☀️ 22 °C

    Having never visited Metung before it was great to book a holiday here.
    To summarize Metung…
    Quiet, cosy, fishing and sailing destination.
    It seemed like it was a retirees paradise for all sorts of reasons…
    It motivated Jen and I to contemplate a sailing holiday with a hire sail boat which we will investigate.
    It is also the place where Ace really developed a keen interest in swimming…pretty good for a frenchie.

    Metung is a town in East Gippsland region of Victoria, Australia. The town is 314 kilometres (195 mi) east of the state capital Melbourne and between the larger towns of Bairnsdale and Lakes Entrance. It is on a small peninsula 31 kilometres (19 mi) south-east of Bairnsdale, separating Lake King and Bancroft Bay on the Gippsland Lakes.

    Legend Rock
    The original inhabitants of the area—the Aboriginal Gunai or Kurnai people—tell a story about an unusual group of rocks now found alongside the boardwalk in the Metung Marina on Bancroft Bay. This legend or fable indicates how greed will be punished.

    The legend goes that some fishermen made a good catch and ate the fish around their campfire. The fishermen, however, did not share their catch with their dogs, despite having more than enough to eat. As a punishment, the women, who were guardians of social law, turned the greedy men to stone.

    Originally there were three rocks found at this location that related to the legend, but two of them were destroyed during road works. The remaining Legend Rock is protected.    Read more

  • Bronze3 Capes WalkTraveler

    Sir Barney of the Rubble…

    November 4, 2022 in Australia ⋅ ⛅ 16 °C

    This would be have to be one of the most memorable days 4 wheel driving because we decided to travel inland on what could only be described as a forest track which over the journey got narrower and narrower…😳
    There were times where I definitely felt like we should turn around and go back the way we came yet decided against it due to what we had already passed.
    I was proud of the car and my driving in the circumstances.
    We visited a whiskery which had a large range of whisky’s to drink as a flight and the owners had four different levels of tasting flights depending on you taste and sophistication for whisky.
    We also went down onto a near deserted beach and walked along it at low tide watching in silence as a photographer captured pictures of a pacific gull resting on the top of the water.
    From there I decided that it might be cool to walk around and speak to a couple of anglers who has set up camp on the beach.    Read more

  • Bronze3 Capes WalkTraveler

    Bruny Island (cont’d)

    November 4, 2022 in Australia ⋅ ⛅ 15 °C

    This was another opportunity to circumnavigate the island and so we visited a whiskery as well as a hip little cafe which also had some interesting sculptures etc
    We also decided to walk into a temperate fern forest which was as predicted…wet and cool 👍🏻.Read more

  • Bronze3 Capes WalkTraveler

    Bruny Island Lighthouse

    November 3, 2022 in Australia ⋅ 🌬 12 °C

    We visited this on a wild and windy day with sleet and mist the order of the morning.
    We walked to the lighthouse and booked a tour which was worth it as the guide was quite a passionate historian in relation to lighthouses and was the current keeper at the time of our visit.
    He explained how the lighthouse used to work and explained how in the earlier days of lighthouse tending many of the keepers succumbed to mercury poisoning as a result of long term exposure to the chemical.
    Back in the day…mercury was used to float the extremely heavy crystal and allow it to rotate evenly.
    Many people around the world still tend lighthouses although technology is fast ensuring that all of them become completely automatic thereby reducing the need for lighthouse keepers at all.
    Sad really…such a remote and private existence although certain that someone might want to preserve the tradition and move in for their 6 month stint.
    The circular style staircases I always find mesmerizing and the building itself was completed by convict labour from the nearby convict settlement.    Read more

  • Bronze3 Capes WalkTraveler

    Bruny Island

    November 2, 2022 in Australia ⋅ ☁️ 11 °C

    Bruny Island is a well kept secret and we were up for exploring as much of it as possible.
    After the ferry trip we travelled to a memorial site for Truganini who was a famous indigenous native who became a voice for all local indigenous peoples.
    Her story is best summarized as someone who was prepared to stand up and fight for what was rightfully theirs and she has become nationally renowned as a result.

    Truganini (also known as Lallah Rookh; c. 1812 – 8 May 1876) was an Aboriginal Tasmanian woman. She was one of the last native speakers of the Tasmanian languages and one of the last individuals solely of Aboriginal Tasmanian origin.
    Truganini grew up in the region around the D'Entrecasteaux Channel and Bruny Island.
    Many of her relatives were killed during the Black War. From 1829 she was associated with George Augustus Robinson, later an official of the colonial government of Van Diemen's Land. She accompanied him as a guide and served as an informant on Aboriginal language and culture. In 1835, Truganini and most other surviving Aboriginal Tasmanians were relocated to Flinders Island in the Bass Strait, where Robinson had established a mission. The mission proved unsuccessful, and disastrous for the Aboriginal Tasmanian people.

    In 1839, Truganini, among sixteen Aboriginal Tasmanians, accompanied Robinson to the Port Phillip District in present-day Victoria. She soon severed ties with him. Around two years later, she and four other Aboriginal Tasmanians, including Tunnerminnerwait became outlaws, leading to the killing of two whalers and an eight-week pursuit and resistance campaign. The five of them were charged with murder. Tunnerminnerwait and another man were found guilty and executed, while Truganini and the others were returned to Tasmania. In 1847, she was moved to the Oyster Cove settlement close to her birthplace, where she maintained some traditional lifestyle elements.

    By the 1860s, Truganini and William Lanne had become anthropological curiosities, being incorrectly regarded as the last "full-blood" Aboriginal Tasmanians under the racial categories used at the time. After her death in Hobart in 1876, her body was exhumed by the Royal Society of Tasmania. Her skeleton was on public display in the Tasmanian Museum until the 1940s, but was returned to the Aboriginal community in 1976 and cremated. Some of her remains were sent to the Royal College of Surgeons of England and were only repatriated in 2002.    Read more

  • Bronze3 Capes WalkTraveler

    Nearing the end…

    November 2, 2022 in Australia ⋅ ☁️ 10 °C

    Thèse last two photos are very different obviously…with one representing the end of our 3 Capes adventure.
    We finished up at Fortesque Bay for a swim and believe me it was a dip as opposed to a swim…my guess was about 10 degrees Celsius.
    We then travelled back to Hobart and prepared for our trip to Bruny Island.    Read more

  • Bronze3 Capes WalkTraveler

    Day 4

    October 31, 2022 in Australia ⋅ ⛅ 11 °C

    More amazing cliff walks and scenery…
    When constructing the track the engineers thoughtfully placed different curios in locations with appropriate stories in a track manual that explains the lot.

  • Bronze3 Capes WalkTraveler

    Day 3 (Cont’d)

    October 31, 2022 in Australia ⋅ 🌬 16 °C

    Some cool stuff here…some of the escarpments and of course the basking tiger snake that Jen almost stood on.
    Everyone of the huts was so well designed…ecologically sustainable, well thought through, well designed…you get the point.
    The rangers were also pretty cool and welcomed us to the huts as well as providing an insight into the next part of the walk for the following day.
    I decided to sleep on the deck at this hut to experience the cold of the night and how effective my sleeping bag was…full marks warm as toast.    Read more

  • Bronze3 Capes WalkTraveler

    Day 3 (Cont’d)

    October 31, 2022 in Australia ⋅ 🌬 16 °C

    Probably the most spectacular part of the walk and the photos should prove it.
    Some of the drops to the ocean were astounding and fortunately the weather allowed us to see the true majesty of this area.
    There were a range of white bellied sea eagles and wedge tailed eagles 🦅 just gliding on the currents hunting for prey.
    We also got to see our elusive echidnas but that was on day four. We had a list of things to see: wallabies, echidnas, snakes, whales, eagles and wombats. Affirmative for everything except wombats.    Read more

  • Bronze3 Capes WalkTraveler

    Day 3 (Cont’d)

    October 31, 2022 in Australia ⋅ 🌬 15 °C

    This was perhaps one of the most spectacular parts of the walk with the path being in most places only a meter from the edge of a 200-300 meter drop to the ocean below…stunning.
    Some of the stone work along the track was stunning and a work of art in itself.
    We spoke to some of the “trackies” as they are called and complimented them on their work.
    Apparently they do an 8 day cycle on and 6 days off which is somewhat similar to the rangers.    Read more

  • Bronze3 Capes WalkTraveler

    Day 3 (Cont’d)

    October 31, 2022 in Australia ⋅ 🌬 14 °C

    As we walked further the mist began to clear and allowed us to see more of the extraordinary coast line.
    You might notice that some of the photos are close to the edge which was actually the case.
    The rock is mostly dolerite and is very solid and quite the sort of rock…rock climbers lust after so is very safe.
    At least it felt safe.
    One of the highlights of this particular walk was the changes in micro climates along the way…cool rain forests to fern gardens to semi dry eucalyptus stands.    Read more

  • Bronze3 Capes WalkTraveler

    Day 3

    October 31, 2022 in Australia ⋅ ☁️ 12 °C

    This morning we woke to very strong winds and lots of low cloud cover which was a little discerning as I had hoped to be able to view more of the cape.
    So we were shrouded in cloud and low flying mist which was quite an experience walking through and reminded me of parachuting and the experience of falling through the clouds.Read more

  • Bronze3 Capes WalkTraveler

    Day 2 (Cont’d)

    October 30, 2022 in Australia ⋅ ⛅ 15 °C

    Shot of hut and surrounds plus some more photos of plants etc and of course our tour guide Jenny…amazing woman 👩 full of the joy of walking and making everyone feel happy.

  • Bronze3 Capes WalkTraveler

    Day 2 (Cont’d)

    October 30, 2022 in Australia ⋅ ⛅ 10 °C

    Some more shots of some of the beautiful scenery of this amazing walk and region of Tasmania.
    Apparently 30% of the species of flora in Tasmania are located in this area which represents 1% of all of Tassie.
    We also chose the right time for the walk as all the wild flowers were in full bloom and prolific.
    Banksias, coastal heath, different gums etc and a plethora of wildlife which feature in later photos.    Read more

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