Mining for gold on Tasmania’s rugged west coast in the 1880s presented extreme challenges. However, some of the State’s largest nuggets were found at Rocky River, about 26 miles (over 40 kilometres) from the small town of Corinna, In 1906 an ex- miner calling himself Mugil
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As a born and bred Tasmanian I’m ashamed to admit that I had never heard of remote Swan Island and its lighthouse. It is located five miles off the north-east coast of Tasmania. The tower was built in 1845 using convict labour, poor souls. An unusual feature
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Mutton Birds, what an odd, seasonal delicacy they were in my 1950s Tasmanian childhood. Oily, salty and yes, with a very strong aroma. 😎 I’m not sure whether I actually liked them, or whether I just enjoyed the novelty of something so different. I had no idea
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THOUGHTS ON THE BUNNY RABBIT Rabbits had begun to breed in plague proportions in Tasmania as early as 1827. The Colonial Times and Tasmanian Advertiser reported: ‘…the common rabbit is becoming so numerous throughout the colony, that they are running about on some large estates by the
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