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Down with the Devils – Tasmania 2024 – Day 42 (pm)- Brickendon

November 17, 2024

Brickendon is just outside Longford, south of Launceston. Hedge-lined laneway leading to Brickendon Chook in the carpark – a good sign! We had great egg-spectations for our visit. Brickendon is one of Tasmania’s oldest farming properties, settled in 1824 by William Archer. The farm has been continuously operated and lived on by his direct descendants, … More Down with the Devils – Tasmania 2024 – Day 42 (pm)- Brickendon

Down with the Devils – Tasmania 2024 – Day 36 – Port Arthur

November 11, 2024

Government Cottage (1854) was built next-door to the Church. Its sole purpose was to accommodate government officials and other important people when they visited Port Arthur. The Church was constructed by convicts in 1836. Inside the ruins The Travelling Bells, including the oldest cast bells in Australia have been sited in a number of churches in … More Down with the Devils – Tasmania 2024 – Day 36 – Port Arthur

Down with the Devils – Tasmania 2024 – Day 22 – Historic towns and handkerchief heists

October 28, 2024

A drive through the Midlands. We start the day in the gardens at Launceston. Japanese maple Campbell Town Inn which was built in 1840. Campbell Town was established in 1826 as a garrison town with soldiers to maintain the displacement of the Tyerrernotepanner people who were formidable opponents of settler colonisation and aggression during the Black … More Down with the Devils – Tasmania 2024 – Day 22 – Historic towns and handkerchief heists

Down with the Devils – Tasmania 2024 – Day 2 – Big Day in New South Wales

October 8, 2024

Now this is malarious! The Big Mosquito at Hexham. We’ll need to call the SWAT team for this big guy. Did you know the inventors of mosquito repellant had little to go by at the beginning of their research – they had to start from scratch. The Big Ugg Boots at Thornton near Maitland. Some … More Down with the Devils – Tasmania 2024 – Day 2 – Big Day in New South Wales