roads.
Heading south and looping around
we pass towns with idyllic names like
Snug, Flowerpot, Cygnet and Picnic
Point. Those that named these places
were certainly in a bind; how do you
name paradise without attracting a
world of tourist hordes? A dilemma I
could handle. This place is paradise.
A paradise almost lost, just weeks
earlier bushfires raged through the
surrounding hills, towns almost lost.
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How could this be? Thankfully the
damage was limited although many
great looking roads were closed, a
pity … although the team at SRT had
told us “strictly no dirt roads”. I’d
chuckled to myself, “sounds about
right, Harley’s don’t like dirt, right?”
The bushland around this part of
Tasmania is ancient; wild and rug-
ged, hard to tame although many
have tried. It’s been home to the
Melukerdee people of the greater