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Tasmania

MLD Supermid:
20 Sep 2017

MLD Supermid:

by admin | posted in: Australia, Backpacking, Hiking, South Coast Track (Tasmania), Tasmania | 0

We have owned this excellent large tent for quite a few years now. We bought it for our cross-Tasmania walk in 2011 way down in the Roaring 40s, the often awful conditions of wind and rain of which it stood … Continued

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Weed Spraying is a great preparation for backpacking.
8 Aug 2016

Weed Spraying is a great preparation for backpacking.

by admin | posted in: Backpacking, Gippsland, Hiking, Tasmania | 0

Carrying a 20kg knapsack around the Gippsland hills in pursuit of thistles, rushes, ragwort, blackberries, etc really makes you fit. More folk ought have a farm or volunteer their efforts to someone who does. There are plenty of more weeds … Continued

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Tamar Valley & Beauty Point: Tasmania
12 Feb 2013

Tamar Valley & Beauty Point: Tasmania

by admin | posted in: Australia, Tamar Valley, Tasmania | 0

Riviera on the Tamar: “The Tamar Hotel” who could want for more? The beds and shower are soft, the sheets are clean, the beer cold enough to bite. The meals excellent and inexpensive: I really enjoyed the $7 salt and … Continued

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Touring Tasmania
16 Feb 2012

Touring Tasmania

by admin | posted in: Tamar Valley, Tasmania | 0

We celebrated the sale of our farm with a week’s holiday touring Tasmania in February. Strangely we did not walk the South Coast Track again but we did camp in the Franklin-Gordon and Arthur wildernesses amongst other things. This sounds … Continued

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Getting Back Into It
1 Jan 2012

Getting Back Into It

by admin | posted in: Dusky Track, Fiordland, New Zealand, South Coast Track (Tasmania), Tasmania | 0

Steve’s back prevented many planned activities in 2010 but it has improved a bit so we have been more active this year. For example, in early March we walked the South Coast Track in Tas with a friend, Kerri Cleaver. … Continued

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South Coast Track Tasmania
6 Mar 2011

South Coast Track Tasmania

by admin | posted in: Australia, Hiking, South Coast Track (Tasmania), Tasmania | 0

We just returned from South Coast Track, Tasmania. The track was really too wet so mud, mud, mud up to our knees or worse for 7 days. Also track times and distances were much longer than quoted on track PR, … Continued

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Tasmania’s South Coast Track – Hell’s Holiday
2 Mar 2011

Tasmania’s South Coast Track – Hell’s Holiday

by admin | posted in: Australia, Backpacking, Camping, Hiking, South Coast Track (Tasmania), Tasmania | 2

A warning to those considering hiking Tasmania’s South Coast Track. It is now a full week since we reached Cockle Creek after completing the South Coast Track wilderness walk. After a week, I finally feel a little recovered and therefore … Continued

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Planning to walk the South Coast Track
16 Dec 2010

Planning to walk the South Coast Track

by admin | posted in: South Coast Track (Tasmania), Tasmania | 0

Della & I and Kerri are planning to walk the South Coast track in Tasmania this summer/autumn, my back permitting. You can see someone else’s Youtube about it. We hope to do a shakedown walk along the Baw Baw plateau … Continued

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South Coast Track Plans
26 Dec 2009

South Coast Track Plans

by admin | posted in: South Coast Track (Tasmania), Tasmania | 0

We are planning to walk the South Coast Track at the bottom of Tasmania in February or March. This is an entertaining 8 day trek along parts of Tasmania’s wilderness coast. Should be just marvellous. Maybe YOU would like to … Continued

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