Rental demand tops nation in Hobart’s cheaper suburbs … http://www.news.com.au/national/tasmania/new-data-spotlights-huge-demand-for-hobart-rental-properties/news-story/8f782fad547e25059388187393274169 Some of those old fixer-upperers might be worth a look …
Mr Tasmania
Details here. Hobart prices are rising while other Aussie cities fall. Perhaps this is because Hobart is cheap. Or are there other factors at play? The rental market is strong, and it’s a great place to live, getting warmer every day …
Hobart prices rise while others fall
The history of tourism in the Cradle Mountain valley is a happy-sad story. Gustav Weindorfer was an Austrian immigrant who married Kate Cowle, a Tasmanian woman 10 years his senior. Gustav and Kate built a timber chalet called Waldheim (meaning “forest home”) in 1912, hoping to open the stunning Cradle […]
Cause of deaths of Gustav and Kate Weindorfer (nee Cowle)
Having just done a weekend road trip from the south to the north, and back, we had a chance to relive some Tasmanian roadside quirks. We like the weird use of brackets around some place names on some road signs. What do the brackets signify? Insignificance? Yes, we could ask […]
Brackets on Tasmanian road signs
It is last year’s news now but still worth a mench … if your boat sinks, don’t leave it, as it might trigger an expensive police search. Details here. Best to let the police know you just had a bit of bad luck, or you might have to pay.
Don’t leave your half sunk boat
What happened to the Ferris Wheel at the 2017 Huon Show? It was there in 2016, when we took the piccy. Yes, there were other great rides in 2017. But the Ferris Wheel is a family thing. Memories are made. It was windy in 2016, we thought the wheel might […]
It’s not fair
At forty bucks a kilo you don’t overcook your fish. Cheap? Expensive? You tell us. Regardless, it looks like people knocked off all the crays at $120 a kilo. Who says Tasmanians are poor? Or was it just politicians and real estate agents buying them? Who’s up for some KFC?
Hobart fish prices
New woodchip plan for southern Tasmania A woodchipping project has been proposed for southern Tasmania, to be located at Southwood on the Huon River, with a port at Dover. The plan has caused quite a stir. A huge increase in the number of log trucks using roads is one of […]
Southwood fibre project
There’s a lot of them around An albino echidna is the latest white wonder spotted strolling the Apple Isle. There’s also been a wallaby, cockroach, magpie and peacock. Please don’t joke about Tasmanian inbreeding, it’s not nice, although a tiny gene pool did possibly contribute to the Tazzie Devil facial […]
The Tasmanian Albinos
Missed our byte of startup pie Tasmania was first to get Australia’s NBN optic fibre rollout. Was this a chance missed? Could Hobart have been ‘Gig City?’ Chattanooga did it … https://www.inc.com/jessica-stillman/what-s-going-on-in-chattanooga.html