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I've always wanted a bumper sticker that said "I'm a female, LDS/Mormon, Scout leading, geocaching, piano-playing, bicycling, mathematics educator with a PhD in maths ... and I VOTE"!

I think this makes me a minority group of cardinality 1!

* Since there's only one of me and "personae" is plural (I think), I've gone with dramatis persona.
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Tasman Peninsula

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Mum, Dad and I went for a drive down to the Tasman Peninsula today, despite the somewhat gloomy weather forecast. It’s been at least 8 years since I’ve been all the way down in that direction, and there were a few places I was looking forward to visiting again.

We stopped at Eaglehawk Neck to visit an historic site that acknowledges the line of dogs that kept guard across the isthmus for escaping convicts. This was around lunchtime, and, after finding the cache that is hidden nearby, we went in search of some lunch (a search that we hadn’t expected would take so long, but previously existing cafes had simply disappeared or had closed for winter)

After we’d eaten lunch, overlooking Stewart’s Bay, we headed around to Nubeena and found a couple of caches. We were thwarted in our hunt for a third, by an overfull lagoon at Roaring Beach that was just a little too deep to cross. The up-side of the abundance of water was a set of interesting reflections of the sand dune beside it (there is a photo here, along with some others of the day’s travels).

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One of the prettiest places we visited was at Lime Bay. There is a lagoon behind the beach, and the recent rains had obviously been a hit with the frogs who were having a noisy time. I like the “glonk” of the banjo frog (or whatever it is), but there was another species croaking as well. The recent rains also meant that the lagoon had plenty of water for making nice reflections; the only tricky thing was getting the exposure right in the dull afternoon light.

The recently-placed cache that had been one of the incentives for coming here was quickly found and, better yet, had a nice empty log book when I opened it. This meant the buzz of a “First to Find”. Ahh, the small and simple pleasures of a blank note book in a plastic box in a beautiful bit of bush!

On our way back out we stopped at Saltwater River. This is one of those places that have a certain peaceful eeriness: it is atmospheric, forbidding and yet hauntingly calm. It gets few visitors, despite the dramatic convict ruins; this is probably because it’s a bit out of the way and “everyone” goes to Port Arthur as the “obvious” place to visit. There have been quite a few changes since I last visited, with protection work to make some of the old convict cells safe to visit. I suspect some of the ruins have decayed a bit though, because I have a photo that I took over 20 years ago showing a stone wall with a missing brick in it (so you could see the sky through the hole), but today I couldn’t find where I took that particular shot.

Anyway, we had the whole place to ourselves … which, of course, just added to the atmosphere. This is one of my favourite places (I should point out that this is a very long list!); it is very reminiscent of Maria Island (another of my favourite spots).

As mentioned above, there are additional photos here.

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