Tasmania’s Forgotten Stories I find western Tasmania a fascinating place. It’s wild, rugged, feels 20 years behind much of mainland Australia and its landscape is littered with crumbling testaments to a bygone era. Ghost towns. Basing myself in the remarkably intact ghost town of Gormanston, I explored four other such places that lie scattered amongst […]
Maheno Remembered
Fraser Island’s famous shipwreck, the SS Maheno, was the focus of the 2015 ANZAC Day Centenary service on the island, bringing to life the largely unknown links between the vessel and the Anzacs at Gallipoli and celebrating the special bond between Australia and New Zealand forged on those fateful shores 100 years ago. The SS […]
A Cut Above The Rest
Legerwood Memorial Tree Carvings Legerwood is located about 85 kilometres northeast of Launceston, Tasmania, along the Tasman Highway (A3). The Memorial Tree Carvings are contained in a small park beside Main Street (aka Ringarooma Road). The park is open 7 days and admission is free. The reserve includes a picnic area, BBQs and toilets. For […]
Axeman Ready
The Australian Axeman’s Hall of Fame “Axemen, stand by your logs!” A hush falls over the crowd of spectators as six men stride to their places for the final of the Standing Block – lengths of hardwood, about a metre long and 375mm thick, clamped vertically on metal stands. Each man is clad in cream […]