First day in Tassie - exploring the North West 120131 - stanley seafood

First day in Tassie - exploring the North West

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January 31st 2012
What felt like day one (but, we suppose, is technically already day two) started off pretty cool.<span> I got dressed in thermals and a woolen hat… but by mid-morning it was a lovely 20-something degrees. <span> We decided to “do” Tassie anti-clockwise so we headed West through the seaside towns of Ulverstone, Burnie and Wynyard, to Stanley.<span> Stanley is a fisherman’s ... read more

Oceania » Australia » Tasmania » Stanley

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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