Advance Australia Fair
26th January 2010 Today it’s Australia Day, the day to celebrate all things Australian and a public holiday, and the folks here in Tasmania are certainly flying the flag. Many of the homes we pass on our way out to the coast have their Ozzie flags out and loads of the cars too. After yesterday’s mammouth trek, a quiet day today with the car taking the strain. We head out to Burnie on the north coast. Burnie is Tasmania’s third largest city and a very industrial area with a large container port. Our first stop was Fernglade, a platypus reserve on a peaceful, forested stretch of the Emu river. A beautiful setting where we saw many birds but unfortunately no platypus, which is hardly surprising as they are most easily spotted at dawn and dusk and we were there late morning. ...