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Favourite Beaches in Tassie (South of Hobart)

Oceania » Australia » Tasmania » Cockle Creek March 1st 2017

Tasmania is a small island with a population of approximately 500,000. Of course, being an island there are quite a lot of beaches... Sometimes I think there is a beach for each person in Tassie. If you go to a beach, it's "crowded" if there are more than ten people.... We are lucky... Of course, living in Hobart, we spend our summer weekends relatively close to Hobart. There's no point driving a few more hours when you have a huge choice of beaches just a relatively short drive away. There are favourite places we go to for a weekend and we make choices usually based on the weather forecast and what other activities we might plan to be doing. Our favourites include: Drip Beach near Cygnet Randalls Beach and Middleton Beach down south. Bruny Island has ... read more

Training at Cockle Creek

Oceania » Australia » Tasmania » Cockle Creek February 8th 2015

Camping at Cockle Creek

LennyGeorgi

The most southern location in Tasmania (where you can drive) is Cockle Creek. It's a very pretty location that was visited by the French explorer Bruni D'Entrecasteaux in the 1790's. Since then, whaling and timber have been industries that have developed and declined. Nowadays, Cockle Creek is best known as the end point of the South Coast Track, a long coastal walk of approx 80 km that commences at Melaleuca. We planned to walk to South Cape Bay (which is approx 16 km round trip) to test our abilities to walk longer distances when we travelled up north. We chose to walk on Saturday which was forecast to be 35 degrees C to see how we would cope. It's an interesting walk, taking you along Cockle Creek and then up into lightly forested bush before coming ... read more

Cockle Creek (6-7 January)

Oceania » Australia » Tasmania » Cockle Creek January 9th 2009

Whale Sculpture

kersers

From Blackmans Bay, we headed south for Cockle Creek, located in the far south of Tasmania on the edge of the Southwest National Park . Cockle Creek is as far south as you can drive in Australia. We set up camp in the National Park campground (Boltons Green, AKA Fords Green) and decided to do the two hour easy going Fishers Point Walk, which took us along beautiful white squeaky-sand beaches and rocky outcrops. Along the walk we saw the life-size sculpture of a 3 month old Southern Right Whale, old whaling sites (Imlay/Smiths Fishery), Whalers grave & headstone, and the Fishers Point light and Pilot station. The next day we headed off on the 15km (return) walk to South Coast Bay, which is part of the South Coast Track. It was a relatively easy walk ... read more

Brief history of Australia

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...more history

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