TheLostGlobe

My Home State

Just a quick note to say Happy Holidays and remind you that I’m off on my hike tomorrow. I’ve added flickr notes to a pic of what I’m taking with me. There is some shared stuff in my GF’s pack that isn’t included but I might add hers later. Click on the photo to get [...]

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I went to book the bus from Lake St Claire to Cradle Mountain today and found that there is no bus service on the day we need it. We could charter but the standard fees were 4 times more expensive and might have been even worse considering we need it on a public holiday. So [...]

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The Overland Track is Tasmania’s and possibly Australia’s premier hiking experience, starting at the world renowned Cradle Mountain it snakes through Cradle Mountain and Lake St Claire National Park in Tasmania’s central highlands. The track is about 80km long (Depending on start/finish points and sidetracks). It is open all year round but in the walking [...]

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I booked our day to start the Overland Track last night, 27th December. The booking system only opened on the 1st July and I found that January already had a few days with only a few spots left in the 3 days the system had been open. The cost was $300 for two, steep really. [...]

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Last weekend I spent most of my Saturday running around in the bush aiming at peoples heads and pulling the trigger without a second thought other than making sure the person I was shooting at didn’t look like me. It was a game of course the guns were infra-red and the only thing really different [...]

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This is a bit of a Community Service Announcement, there have been a few reports in the news lately about the misuse of EPIRBs in Tasmania. Two notable occasions were a Swiss couple who activated their EPIRB after getting their 4WD bogged just 7Km’s from a main road and a group of South Australian’s walking [...]

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[tag]Tasmania[/tag] is well know for it’s [tag]Hiking[/tag] and these walks are what I believe to be the best in Tasmania not only that but they are also some of the most picturesque and definitely the most demanding, although I have not ordered them as such. Tasmania really is the Hiking capital of [tag]Australia[/tag] I hope this and [...]

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You can’t go to one of these expos and expect to be wowed, really most everyone the just wants you to book a flight then and there, a few though offer some other useful information and inspiration for your own independent travels. Mostly I went there to get some brochures most of what are on [...]

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[thumb:57:l:l=g]I have updated the Gallery with some photos I took of Mt Wellington shortly before Xmas, let me know what you think.
While I’m here I should also point you in the direction of another fantastic travel blog BraveNewTraveler is fairly new but there is already heaps of great articles there, really top quality.
2 Weekends ago we went down to the Tasman Peninsula, unfortunately we didn’t get to complete the walk [...]

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Sometimes the easy way is just boring and the route we took to my sisters house for Christmas day is testement to this, the alternative to the Lyell Highway is the Midlands Highway and then doubling back down the west coast, athough this way is longer than the Lyell the road is much better and [...]

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