Eight days in February (Tasmanian Daze)

And eight days of 'Designer Day Walks' in North West Tasmania. It's been nine years since I put on the last one in this series - the Southern Tasmanian version, and eventually all the talk and all the planning came together again last week. So there I was with some of my bushwalking club companions helping me relive some of the fine bushwalking experiences I first discovered about 30 years ago during my time in the Burnie/Ulverstone/Devonport area.

We stayed in comfortable cabin style accommodation in Ulverstone, and spent several days doing serious bushwalking in the Dial Range, Walls of Jerusalem, Cradle Mountain, and Tullah/Mt Farrell areas. On other days we did gentler sightseeings and socialisings. There were lots of adventures, lots of experiences, a broken leg, a minor car crash, waitresses poured wine over us, cooks ran away at the sight of us, and the biggest disaster of all: we discovered that the Launceston Roman Baths were no longer functioning!

The bushwalks were brilliant though and the company excellent. Somehow I detect that by and large a good time was had by all. Old Tasmaniaphiles like me will be back again soon, and some of the new converts too.

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(More pictures on All Nations Bushwalkers website photo gallery):
 http://anbwalkers.org.au/