James poses during our Cradle Mountain walk

On the Trail of the Tassie Tiger!

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January 22nd 2007
Lots of catching up to do on the old blog - will try and update it over the next few days before I fly off to New Zealand. Let's start with Tasmania! My time in Tasmania seems likes an age ago now, but it really was a lovely place. You can't do the place justice in a week, and ideally I would have liked to have spent longer there. I met up with James McHale in Hobart after a flight from Sydney ... read more

Oceania » Australia » Tasmania » Launceston

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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