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Maria Island

26 Friday Oct 2018

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Maria Island is a delight. An island of history, of beauty, an island with no vehicles, no shops. A place to relax and connect with nature.

The island is a thirty minute ferry off the east coast of Tasmania. The Painted Cliffs are stunning coloured sandstone sculptured by the sea and wind.
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The Fossil Cliffs are limestone rocks containing numerous and varied fossils.
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There are white beaches, open spaces, bush tracks.
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The historic settlement of Darlington has been a convict probation station, a camp for whalers and sealers, a Victorian resort. The island has housed a cement works along with farming and fishing.

 

It is now a National Park and wildlife sanctuary. As well as wombats, there are wallabies and numerous bird species.
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Wombats on Maria Island

25 Thursday Oct 2018

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We’ve spent the day on Maria Island. An island off the east cost of Tasmania.

I’ll write about it later but I wanted to share these photos of wombats. Wild wombats on the island that are very healthy and very tolerant of walkers with cameras. In total we saw 21 wombats, on grass, in a barn, crossing the footpath, one with a youngster.

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“Since the late 1960s Maria Island has become a kind of Noah’s Ark, as a number of threatened species have been introduced here in a bid to protect their kind. The very things that made the island a convict settlement, now make it an ideal refuge for plant and animal species that are elsewhere under threat.”

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Along the Rivulet

29 Saturday Sep 2018

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This morning, I went for a walk along one of the rivulets that flow down from Mount Wellington. Two hundred years ago, these streams provided fresh water to the new settlement of Hobart, although they gradually became polluted by industry and the growing population. Today they are public spaces with walking tracks.
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New Town Rivulet has a couple of interesting sculptures representing local flora and fauna.DSC02710DSC02747

 

I wonder how long this bench has been along this track? How many people of rested here?
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