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emo_snal

The Dismal Swamp and Tarkine Wilderness!

Mar 05, 2018 23:06

Tuesday, February 20th, Dismal Swamp, the Tarkine Wilderness - "Wait, which way is it?" asks dad, looking from the small map to the junction in the boardwalk "this junction isn't even on here!" I look at the map myself and as far as I can tell this junction is indeed not on the map. We are lost literally and figuratively deep in the dismal swamp ( Read more... )

tasmania, travelogues, australia, travel, my parents, australian fauna, roadtrips

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tassie_gal March 6 2018, 04:29:49 UTC

you should have done the slide, its AWESOME (well it was when my late father and I did it in about 2009!). And you went to Miffton and came out unscathed? Blimey! When I went through there for work I always scheduled middle of the day visits, as its SCARY.

emo_snal March 6 2018, 07:19:54 UTC

Haha I'll have to come back and do the slide (:

Oh I had no idea, Smithton seemed so innocuous and innocent! Sneaky place!

num3bers March 8 2018, 01:25:43 UTC

Love. Photos. Board walks. Hikes. Nature is good

emo_snal March 8 2018, 07:59:50 UTC

Thanks! (:

pundigrion March 8 2018, 03:39:32 UTC

Those boardwalks look fantastic!

There is something here called the Slough of Despair, which I need to hike more in because of the name along. I have only been along the edge of it on one of the geology hikes since there is not much in a swamp by the way of rocks.

I did know about the Tasmanian Lion, but I did not in fact know what your icon is of! Embarrassingly, I always think of it as an echidna, even though it does not look a thing like one, since right next to it your journal name is Echidna Media Organization project S.N.A.L.

Also, I misread "comparative beekeeping" as "competitive beekeeping" and thought you'd have a chuckle about that.

emo_snal March 8 2018, 07:51:24 UTC

Slough of Despair!!! I love it!! (: I'd totally be all about it.

What's funny is I chose the echidna name way before I ever thought I'd move to Australia. In high school and college before livejournal I had a humorous newsletter thing Ii put out periodically called "the chosen echidna," which isn't a great name really because the ch in chosen prompts one to pronounce the ch in echidna the same way, but of course the latter is "E-kid-na"

lol competitive beekeeping! I feel like it always is. A lot of beekeepers are very sensitive to give the impression they're the best and I pretty much automatically take all accounts of how much honey someone got in a year as by default a gross exaggeration ;D

pundigrion March 10 2018, 04:14:50 UTC

Haha, I was wondering where that came from! I knew it pre-dated you moving to Aus, but hey, maybe you just loved odd marsupials. I mean, I have favourite fossils, this seems legit.

And hey, speaking of Chumash the other day, I shall be visiting their homeland again pretty soon for the first time in a couple of decades just about.

emo_snal March 13 2018, 10:16:51 UTC

Yeah the echidna was chosen (hehe I typed that before realizing what a play on words it was) back in high school, probably because I did initially think it was "e-chi-dna" at first.

Where in Chumashland are you going?

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kk1raven March 21 2018, 16:59:42 UTC

Your mother's birds may have been Tasmanian Native-hens. They're related to rails and coots, not to chickens. They're flightless, but the ones I saw when I was in Tasmania seemed quite good at both running and swimming.