Kitchen Hut

Cradle Mountain

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May 13th 2007
to Cradle Mountain National Park Our guides picked us up at the Launceston Backpacker's Hostel on Sunday morning. We hooked up with the other travellers, a couple from Brisbane, and drove to Cradle Mountain National Park. After lunch we hiked around Dove Lake, beautiful with the beech trees in their orange autumn color. That evening we went to see the [url="htt ... read more

Oceania » Australia » Tasmania

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Aboriginal settlers arrived on the continent from Southeast Asia about 40,000 years before the first Europeans began exploration in the 17th century. No formal territorial claims were made until 1770, when Capt. James COOK took possession in the name... ... read more