Our haven

On Being Cuckoos and Bruny Island

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April 14th 2011
A log fire, separate bedrooms, a big TV with great DVDs to watch, and pouring down with rain outside - we are in H(e)aven!! Thank you Marie and to your Dad and Sheryl for letting us stay in their holiday ‘shack’ in Orford, on the east coast of Tasmania. We have been in Orford since Saturday, and we are so, so grateful we have been in a house for this past week, as the rain has bucketed down, ... read more

Oceania » Australia » Tasmania » Orford

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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