Quote from: Vindaloo-crazy on October 22, 2010, 08:55 AMWe moved to Tassie 18 months ago. Great site for curry this though.
Ah, that would explain your earlier reference to prices in dollars; I assumed (clearly wrongly) that you were resident in America : all is now forgiven
I spent a long weekend in Tasmania in 1987, mainly visiting the South West wilderness, but I could not stay there for the whole weekend so decided to move on to Queenstown. Never have I felt so devastated in my whole life : having just left the vibrant, fertile, primeval rain forest, Queenstown was like a vision of hell -- 25 square miles of sterile nothingness : no birds, no grass, not a living creature anywhere. Cancelling my reservation, I drove out of there like a bat out of hell, and finally ended up in Strahan on the Gordon River, but I will never forget to my dying day the nightmare that was Queenstown.
Reply to PaulP, added above to avoid increasing my total number of O/T posts : I think it was primarily mining, Paul : WP has this to say -- "Owing to a combination of tree removal for use in the smelters, the smelter fumes (for about 40 years), and the heavy annual rainfall, the erosion of the shallow horizon topsoil back to the harder rock profile contributed to the stark state of the mountains for many decades."
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