The Tasman National Park is in the far southeast of Tasmania, about an hour and a half's drive from Hobart. The Tasman Peninsula has the highest vertical seacliffs in Australia - it was the aim of our hike to see these (and hopefully not get blown off - they're 300 metre vertical cliffs!). We headed down to Fortescue Bay on the eve of Australia Day 07. For the second and final time, I made the mistake of leaving it to BF to organise the trip. Noting that parts of the track we'd be walking were subject to gale force winds, I left plans with my supervisor at work with instructions that if I didn’t show up on Monday, would she please lead the search & rescue effort? In the end, it turned out that BF was
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