Tasmanian Travel Video
Travel Tasmania seeing it's top destinations through the eyes of the locals. Stories include:
Rob Pennicott and his artist wife Michaye live an idyllic family life on Bruny Island. Surrounded by nature and a bountiful sea, Bruny appears to be paradise, but as Rob suggests, may not be for everyone. I also discuss the sad history of Truganini, the last full blooded Tasmanian Aborigine.
In Hobart I interview Sudanese musician Ajak Kwai about her experience living in Tasmania.
Formation of the Australian Greens Political Party. I take a flight to the South West Wilderness area of Tasmania, learning about Critchley Parker Junior, an ill fated explorer who hoped to form a new Jewish State in the region. I also interview Senator Bob Brown, leader of the world's first Greens Political Party.
This action packed video is three stories packed into one. First I feature archival footage from the seminal Franklin River campaign, then I investigate the Facial Tumor Disease effecting the wild Tasmanian Devil Population, and finally I do a story on Port Arthur, an historic convict colony where I interview guide Laura Leeworthy, do their ghost tour and film a Ghost!!
Fishing for Trout in Tasmania offers anglers some of the most remote Lake Fishing in the world. I interview Janice Spencer about the Land of 3,000 Lakes. Janice was the first female angler ever accepted for an Australian competition Fly Fishing Team.
Tasmania has some of the biggest cold water surf breaks in the world. I visit Marrawah on the north west corner, a location renowned for it's year round surf. I interview 16 yr old local Zak Grey.
Cruising the winding roads of Tasmania on a Harley Davidson with Simon Richardson. Simon owns the Launceston Harley Davidson Dealership and believes Tasmania offers bikers great touring opportunities, with mountainous roads and free camping. I also visit Stanley, Tasmania's Best Town. Simon rides a 1980 Shovelhead Harley Trike.
For my last Tasmania story I visited Campbelltown's sombre convict brick display and then interviewed an Irish Woman in the Town of National Park, near the Mt Field National Park. Trish Rawlins believes Tasmania is like Ireland before it lost all it's trees.
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Hobart Vacation Travel Guide | Expedia
Hobart – Tasmania’s capital city is steeped in history, come take part in the reborn city as you follow us through the town. Check out the top spots in Hobart today, and fuel your travel inspiration.
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The onetime penal colony of #Hobart is located between Mount Wellington and Port Hobart, and features a number of exquisite colonial buildings in breathtaking natural surroundings.
There’s a variety of things to do on #vacation in the city, so chow down on seafood from a waterfront restaurant before stopping by one of the galleries built into old whale oil warehouses. Don’t forget to check out the Hobart Theatre, a must-see on any Hobart tour.
Hobart #sightseeing will no doubt include the Maritime Museum, which celebrates Hobart’s ties to the sea. Go for a sail on the Lady Nelson, a tall ship that makes regular excursions out to the harbor.
Head to MONA, the Museum of Old and New Art. This building descends three floors down into the cliffs surrounding it, and its often dark-natured artwork is featured in vast, cavernous spaces.
For now, we hope you enjoy watching this #travel #guide as much as we enjoyed making it.
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Emiliana Torrini is driving through Huonville, Tasmania
We are on the way back to cradoc Backpackers and enjoy the splendid scenery around Huonville, the music comes from the speakers actually
Watch People Rescue Entangled Swans - How Did It Happen? Спасение Лебедей. Gulbju izglābšana.
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Swans Got trapped in the wings and necks...
Лебеди Запутавшиеся в своих крыльях и шеях ... в безвыходной для них ситуации обратились за помощью к человеку и позволили себе помочь
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Watch People Rescue Entangled Swans—How Did It Happen?
Photographers in Latvia saved the lives of two male mute swans, which likely got stuck together while fighting for territory.
By Stefan Sirucek, National Geographic
PUBLISHED MARCH 31, 2015
Alexander and Vitaly Drozdov were walking along the Mazā Jugla River outside Riga, Latvia, one spring day when they heard some weird splashes coming from a distant inlet.
We decided to come closer to see what is happening, Alexander says by email.
The brothers, both photographers, discovered two mute swans struggling in the water, their necks desperately entangled.
Surprisingly, the birds paddled over and allowed Alexander to gingerly separate their entwined necks and wings. Meanwhile, Vitaly filmed the rescue, which took place in 2009 but has only recently gone viral on Facebook and on YouTube.
Honestly, I was really surprised when [the] swan [swam] to my feet, like he heard and [understood] what I was saying, Alexander says.
I thought only not to break anything. Because everything is white, it took some time to figure out which wing belonged to which bird, he says.
This feel-good swan story raises the question—how did the birds get into such an unusual predicament, and how common is it?
Bird Battles
The swans were most likely males that became twisted together while battling over territory, Brian K. Schmidt, a bird expert at the Smithsonian's National Museum of Natural History in Washington, D.C., says by email.
The males typically fight to protect their breeding territory from intruding swans trying to usurp the territory. Both sexes can exhibit aggressive behavior, [but] it is most likely and intense with males, he says. (Related: 5 of Nature's Wildest Animal Showdowns.)
This is the first time I have seen this, but I'm sure it does happen on occasion. [It's] similar to deer getting their antlers entangled.
The swans' neck fighting, coupled with hitting each other, caused them to get stuck.
Mute swan battles are rarely fatal but can be quite violent, nonetheless.
If the intruder doesn't back down, it goes to a face-off with the birds striking each other with their wings and entangling their necks and biting each other, he says. (Watch: Kickboxing Kangaroos and 4 of Nature's Most Impressive Fighters.)
Most fights end here as usually the territorial male ... is better at this, and the intruder retreats.
Wary of Humans
While the idea of swans swimming to humans for help with their problem appeals to our emotional side, Schmidt says it's highly unlikely—and the swans' movement was either random or actually an attempt to drive the brothers away.
These particular swans were exhausted from fighting and being entangled. As you notice in the video, both birds tried to get away from their rescuers as soon as possible, Schmidt says. (Also see Watch a Tortoise Rescue Another in Distress—Was It Trying to Help?)
The man was smart to be very tentative with his efforts to free them, as they could have easily bitten him.
Right Place in the Right Time
Nevertheless, Schmidt says the Drozdovs' intervention saved the animals' lives.
Given how much they were [stuck together], I would have guessed they would have eventually drowned or starved if these people hadn't found them.
For his part, Alexander, who describes himself and Vitaly as naturalists passionate about wildlife photography, was glad he could help.
We [were] really happy to be in the right place in the right time, he says.
Elena Sheveiko contributed additional reporting to this story.
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Oyster Stacks, Ningaloo Reef, Western Australia
A fish eye view while snorkeling close to the waters edge at the Oyster Stacks on the Ningaloo Reef.
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Tasmania
Tasmania (abbreviated as Tas and known colloquially as Tassie; /tæzˈmeɪniə/) is an island state, part of the Commonwealth of Australia, located 240 kilometres (150 mi) to the south of the Australian continent, separated by Bass Strait. The state includes the island of Tasmania, the 26th largest island in the world, and the surrounding 334 islands. The state has a population of 507,626 (as of June 2010), of whom almost half reside in the greater Hobart precinct. Tasmania's area is 68,401 square kilometres (26,410 sq mi), of which the main island covers 64,519 square kilometres (24,911 sq mi).
Tasmania is promoted as the natural state, and A World Apart, Not A World Away owing to its large and relatively unspoiled natural environment. Almost 45% of Tasmania lies in reserves, national parks and World Heritage Sites. The island is 364 kilometres (226 mi) long from its northernmost to its southernmost points, and 306 kilometres (190 mi) from east to west.
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William Dampier
William Dampier was the first Englishman to explore parts of what is today Australia, and the first person to circumnavigate the world three times. He has also been described as Australia's first natural historian, as well as one of the most important British explorers of the period between Sir Walter Raleigh and James Cook.
After impressing the British Admiralty with his book, A New Voyage Round the World, Dampier was given command of a Royal Navy ship and made important discoveries in western Australia, but was court-martialled for cruelty. On a later voyage, he rescued Alexander Selkirk, a former crewmate who may have inspired Daniel Defoe's Robinson Crusoe. Others influenced by Dampier include James Cook, Lord Nelson, Charles Darwin and Alfred Russel Wallace.
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Tasmania
Tasmania is an island state, part of the Commonwealth of Australia, located 240 kilometres to the south of the Australian continent, separated by Bass Strait. The state includes the island of Tasmania, the 26th largest island in the world, and the surrounding 334 islands. The state has a population of 507,626 , of whom almost half reside in the greater Hobart precinct. Tasmania's area is 68,401 square kilometres , of which the main island covers 64,519 square kilometres .
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Tasmania (; abbreviated as Tas and known colloquially as Tassie) is an island state of Australia. It is located 240 km (150 mi) to the south of the Australian mainland, separated by the Bass Strait. The state encompasses the main island of Tasmania, the 26th-largest island in the world, and the surrounding 334 islands. The state has a population of around 526,700 as of March 2018. Just over forty percent of the population resides in the Greater Hobart precinct, which forms the metropolitan area of the state capital and largest city, Hobart.Tasmania's area is 68,401 km2 (26,410 sq mi), of which the main island covers 64,519 km2 (24,911 sq mi). It is promoted as a natural state, and protected areas of Tasmania cover about 42% of its land area, which includes national parks and World Heritage Sites. Tasmania was the founding place of the first environmental party in the world.Due to an administrative quirk caused by an early mapping error, the state of Tasmania shares a tiny land border with the state of Victoria. This 85 metres (279 ft) line bisects Boundary Islet, a nature reserve in the Bass Strait, separating the northernmost land governed by Tasmania from the southernmost land governed by Victoria. The Bishop and Clerk Islets, about 37 km south of Macquarie Island, are the southernmost terrestrial point of the state of Tasmania, and the southernmost internationally recognised land in Australia. About 2,500 kilometres (1,600 mi) south of Tasmania island lies Antarctica, which is nearer than areas in the northern Australian mainland.
The island is believed to have been occupied by indigenous peoples for 30,000 years before British colonisation. It is thought Aboriginal Tasmanians were separated from the mainland Aboriginal groups about 10,000 years ago when the sea rose to form the Bass Strait. The Aboriginal population was estimated to have been between 3,000 and 7,000 at the time of colonisation, but was almost wiped out within 30 years by a combination of violent guerrilla conflict with settlers known as the Black War, intertribal conflict, and from the late 1820s, the spread of infectious diseases to which they had no immunity. The conflict, which peaked between 1825 and 1831 and led to more than three years of martial law, cost the lives of almost 1100 Aboriginals and settlers. The near-destruction of Tasmania's Aboriginal population has been described by some historians as an act of genocide by the British.
The island was permanently settled by Europeans in 1803 as a penal settlement of the British Empire to prevent claims to the land by the First French Empire during the Napoleonic Wars; around 75,000 convicts were sent to Van Diemen's Land before transportation ceased in 1853. The island was initially part of the Colony of New South Wales but became a separate, self-governing colony under the name Van Diemen's Land (named after Anthony van Diemen) in 1825. In 1854 the present Constitution of Tasmania was passed and the following year the colony received permission to change its name to Tasmania. In 1901 it became a state through the process of the Federation of Australia.