The Australian Wooden Boat Festival has grown to be among the biggest of such events anywhere in the world
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Winter is coming…so it must be festival time in Tasmania
Tasmanians may appear blase about the cold, but they know how to make the most of winter
A brief pre-winter sojourn on the Gold Coast
…those beaches are epic, stretching as far as the eye can see…
Whizz-bangs, fizz-pops and the fun of nighttime photography
Fireworks over Hobart’s waterfront
Some of my favourite photographs of the year
I sorted through some of my favourite Tasmanian shots for the year and put them into a calendar using an online service and have been giving them to my family and friends as Christmas – New Year gifts, and they seem to quite like them.
Christmas in summer
Does your festive decor reflect in any way the reality of a Southern Hemisphere summer Christmas, or some other aspect of your life that is important to you?
Inside Newdegate Cave in Tasmania’s Far South
he Hastings Caves State Reserve is located around an hour and a half’s drive south of Hobart, beyond the township of Dover. The reserve forms part of the Tasmanian Wilderness World Heritage Area and offers a range of experiences, including bushwalks, swimming in the nearby thermal pool and access to the stunning Newdegate Cave.
Walking the Arm End circuit
Arm End is the northernmost tip of the South Arm peninsula, which sits near the mouth of the River Derwent, south east of Hobart.
The Cornelian Bay Boatsheds – one of Hobart’s hidden secrets
Once utilitarian storage and workshops for rivercraft, the boatsheds occupy a north-facing aspect in Cornelian Bay, a cove just to the north of central Hobart and the Tasman Bridge
Singapore to Malacca
Since I last visited Malacca the historic heart of the city has had World Heritage status bestowed upon it. I am still considering my thoughts on how it is wearing the honour. Needless to say, the changes have not all been positive.