2020 Tas Volunteer Awards OPEN Volunteering Tasmania has announced the launch of the fifth annual Tasmanian Volunteering Awards, recognising volunteers across the state who make a difference within their community. Chief Executive Officer of Volunteering Tasmania, Lisa Schimanski encourages people to nominate a volunteer. “Volunteering has long been a driver of individual and community wellbeing, […]
A Clean Up Australia event will be held at Cradle Mountain on 1st March. The event is being organised by the Cradle Mtn Discovery Park in conjunction with the Parks and Wildlife Service. Anyone keen to support the Cradle Mountain Community is welcome to participate. Full details are on the Wildcare Calendar.https://legacy.wildcaretas.org.au/event/1000001616/ Registration is essential.
The Shadow Lake track is one of Tasmania’s 60 Great Short Walks and commences at Lake St Clair, winds its way up through incredible towering snowgums, then crosses sub-alpine moorlands before arriving at Shadow Lake at an altitude of 950m. PWS Lake St Clair have put […]
A great day was had by a group of young woman at Mt Field National Park. We enjoyed looking at tall trees and waterfalls. It was a very hot day and we enjoyed the cool of the forest and dipping their toes into the cold water. Thanks to Catholic care for working in partnership to […]
Written by Adrian Blackman Secretary Friends of Mount Field This project involved completing the Lake Fenton Fagus Walk thereby providing easy access for fagus viewing. Fagus, Nothofagus gunnii, is also known as Deciduous Beech. It is a small tree endemic to Tasmania’s high country and is Australia’s only cold climate winter-deciduous tree. Beginning in autumn […]
This January, in partnership with CatholicCare, the Get Outside Program took 15 young people on a walk along the Alum Cliffs. The Alum Cliff Track has long been a coastal path used by local people. In 1988 it was formally developed as part of Australia’s Bicentennial celebrations. The track, which climbs from Tyndall Beach (adjacent […]
The school holidays are sometimes a hard time for young people – especially if you are new to the country and don’t have friends or know where to go to have fun. The Get outside program this January, in partnership with the Migrant Resource Centre organised an event especially for children new to Tasmania. The […]
If you are on Tassie’s west coast in early Feb. you will be most welcome at this Wild Talk on Little Penguins. Register here.
The highlands of Tasmania are unique and Cradle Mountain in particular holds a very special place in the hearts and memories of almost everyone who has been there. My first time to this magical place was the first of our annual family trips to Waldheim in the mid 1960s. A trip to Cradle Mountain always […]
Catch this exhibition by Belinda Kurczok at the Long Gallery, Salamanca Place, until 22 January (10am-5pm). It includes 30 original (and stunning) paintings of Tasmanian birds, including endemic & endangered species. They are framed in native Blackwood or Tas Oak. Limited edition archival prints (full size only) of some of the paintings are available. Belinda […]