Tasmania is not somewhere I had on my list of places to go. I didn’t know anything about Tasmania, beyond that it was an island south of Australia and the home of Tasmanian Devils. So when my boyfriend Ant Field invited me to join him and a group of his friends from university I wasn’t quite sure what to expect. It did, however, sound like an adventure. We flew into Hobart, where we met the rest of group - Mike, his girlfriend Anna and her sister Justine. Mike’s friend Bruce, the sixth member of our group, would be arriving much later. Right off we decided to head to Hobart’s Saturday craft market. It was a pretty normal craft fair, with sweaters, knickknacks and bongo drums. The people of Hobart, however, were not your average citizens. Women
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