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Touring Tasmania: Vacationing Down Under Down Under |
| Section: LIFE / TRAVEL |
| Author: Peter Holden |
| Publication: The world & I online |
| Issue Date: 1/1/1997 |
| Size: 2,853 Words, 17,089 Characters |
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A small brown wallaby nibbled corn from my outstretched hand as I looked up just in time to see a large Eastern Grey kangaroo come hopping slowly over to us. It must have looked enormous from the perspective of our two-year-old son. And I remember thinking, "This is so foreign!" and then, "Where's my camera?" Matthew wasn't fazed at all by the interloper, so he held out his small hand as it approached. The kangaroo knew the drill and nuzzled the corn carefully from him.
My wife Mary, myself, and two children, Angela, 5, and Matthew, 2, were in Bonarong Park, twenty miles north of Hobart, the capital of the Australian island state of Tasmania. The park takes care of injured native animals and later releases them to the wild. It is temporary home to emus, lyre birds, koalas, and sundry Au...
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... clear skies, vivid colors, and wacky, improbable animals we'd encountered. We'd enjoyed the gentle hospitality of the locals. Tasmanians are an easygoing lot--they are quick with a joke and go out of their way to make you feel at home. It is no wonder that more and more vacationers are discovering Tasmania and going to "walk about" down under Down Under (leaving their winter parkas at home).
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