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Judy Evans @JudyEv (382312) • Rockingham, Australia 5 Jun

The photo is another one from the display which is in our clubhouse. It has nothing to do with the discussion. North-east of Tasmania, in Bass Strait, lies the Furneaux Group of islands, one of which is Little Dog Island. It has...

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The loss of a leg

Judy Evans @JudyEv (382312) • Rockingham, Australia 13 Jul

We watched an amazing two-part documentary showing the rescue of a 66-year-old Lithuanian white-water rafter, Valdas Bieliauskas, who slipped on a rock while negotiating the Franklin River in Tasmania. Valdas was travelling with a...

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Tasmania hits the news for the wrong reasons

Judy Evans @JudyEv (382312) • Rockingham, Australia 17 Jun

A few days ago a policeman was shot dead in Tasmania. This is significant as it is the first police officer to be shot there since 1922, over a century ago. I wonder how many other countries can say that. Tasmania is an...

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Tasmania and its 177 nationalities

Judy Evans @JudyEv (382312) • Rockingham, Australia 13 Jun 25

When I go to my computer in the morning, I check my emails, log into myLot, check a couple of Facebook sites and open ABC (Australian Broadcasting Corporation) news. Today, I struck gold, or copper anyway, with two feel-good...

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Nature's map of Australia

Judy Evans @JudyEv (382312) • Rockingham, Australia 20 Aug 24

One of the exhibits at the Narrogin tourist centre was this large wooden mass which is a good likeness of the shape of Australia. A local man who does a lot of woodwork found it while out searching for timber and was struck by its...

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Good morning, friends. When you forget to turn the TV off.

marguicha @marguicha (230349) • Chile 16 Aug 24

Last night I fell asleep with the TV on. I was very tired so I have no idea what I was watching. But I was amazad when I woke up today to people in Tasmania, with 4 people after a Tasmanian tiger, a supposedly extint...

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Some animals have no table manners.

marguicha @marguicha (230349) • Chile 22 Jun 23

I am watching a beautiful documentary about wild animals. But while some animals are even as corteous so as to let their elders eat first, some others are completly messy. I just saw some evils of Tasmania eat and...

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A Sad Story About Seagulls

Judy Evans @JudyEv (382312) • Rockingham, Australia 10 Jul 22

I heard a sad story today regarding seagulls. The silver gulls in question usually roost on a narrow strip of land next to a road. A high tide had covered their normal roosting area. As the gulls were coming in at dusk and don’t...

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A collection of furphies has now been sold

Judy Evans @JudyEv (382312) • Rockingham, Australia 30 Mar 22

On July 2, 2018, I wrote about Furphy tanks and how, in Australian vernacular, telling a Furphy meant telling white lie or a ‘tall story’ (exaggerated account). As the discussion received ten responses and only about three of...

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A jumping castle escapes its moorings

Judy Evans @JudyEv (382312) • Rockingham, Australia 16 Dec 21

You may have heard of the terrible tragedy that hit a primary school in Tasmania. An inflatable ‘jumping castle’ came loose from its moorings and became airborne. Four children plunged about ten metres to their deaths and another...

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Our friend has car-owner-virus (say it quickly)

Judy Evans @JudyEv (382312) • Rockingham, Australia 10 Mar 20

Our friend in Hobart, Tasmania, has ‘carownervirus’. Some people can’t help collecting cars. From time to time, we see backyards or paddocks on farms crammed with cars of all descriptions. You have to wonder how many ever get...

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When is a kangaroo not a kangaroo?

Judy Evans @JudyEv (382312) • Rockingham, Australia 16 Jan 20

The answer is: when it’s a wallaby. Kangaroos are distinguished from wallabies by size. The former are designed for life on more open terrain whereas the wallaby has shorter legs more suited to forested areas. Where we live we...

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November 24 - Let's discuss what happened on that day

LindaOH @LindaOHio (222608) • United States 24 Nov 19

Celebrate Your Unique Talent Day National Sardines Day 1642 - Abel Tasman becomes the first European to discover the island Van Dreman's Land (later renamed Tasmania). 1835 - The horse-mounted police force, the Texas Rangers,...

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Fires and floods in Australia

Judy Evans @JudyEv (382312) • Rockingham, Australia 3 Feb 19

If climate change isn’t for real then something very strange is going on. Lightning strikes before Christmas were responsible for starting a number of fires in the Tasmanian highlands. Normally these have little impact as the...

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English Leicesters and an interesting lady

Judy Evans @JudyEv (382312) • Rockingham, Australia 1 Oct 18

When we were in Tasmania earlier in the year, we picked up a small local paper in a café in the Central Highlands. I read of a family who has Australia’s largest flock of pure English Leicester sheep. The Arundel Farm has been in...

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In days of yore - Campbell Town, Tasmania

Judy Evans @JudyEv (382312) • Rockingham, Australia 8 Aug 18

When we were in Tasmania, recently we came across these great road installations in the area of Campbell Town. I had to take the photos from the car as we drove by so there wasn’t time for niceties such as zooming up or focussing...

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Heading back to Western Australia

Judy Evans @JudyEv (382312) • Rockingham, Australia 21 Jul 18

Tonight we’re in a town in South Australia called Elliston and tomorrow we’ll get past Ceduna and head out onto the Nullarbor on our way home to Western Australia. We left home on May 8 and should be home by the end of July. We...

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Southern Right whales were the 'right' whales to kill

Judy Evans @JudyEv (382312) • Rockingham, Australia 16 Jul 18

We did a spectacular boat tour while near Port Arthur on the east coast of Tasmania. We were lucky enough to come across some whales which were on migration. The notices in the area stated that the southern right whale was once...

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An alien village? No, just rock cairns

Judy Evans @JudyEv (382312) • Rockingham, Australia 13 Jul 18

While at Cataract Gorge in Launceston, Tasmania, we saw these little cairns that people had built with small stones on the banks of the lake there. It looks rather like a strange alien village. The park was designed for the...

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Don’t even think about escaping

Judy Evans @JudyEv (382312) • Rockingham, Australia 13 Jul 18

I’ve written a little about the penal settlement at Port Arthur on the east coast of Tasmania. The settlement was for the worst behaved of the convicts and the treatment there was severe in the extreme. Port Arthur was a difficult...

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