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Intrepid Fearless Fortitude Endurance

Intrepid Fearless Fortitude Endurance

Intrepid Fearless Fortitude Endurance

Intrepid Fearless Fortitude Endurance, none of these descriptive words apply to the two subjects in this photo blog. I’m speaking of course of my brother Warren Herd & his amigo Chris Lockwood, otherwise known as The Wasp & Dr Evil.

The Wasp & Dr Evil were planning their next adventure & decided to follow in the steps of Burke & Wills, sadly they had the map upside down & wound up in Tasmania. They spent a couple of weeks consoling themselves by consuming the local specials including seafood chowder, oysters, steak & kingfish.

The following photos are in no particular order, the shot above is Wineglass Bay north east of Hobart.

Talking about Hobart

Intrepid Fearless Fortitude Endurance This is where they started their trip spending a couple of days with Warren’s daughter Laura & her husband Jordan. That’s little Charli, the eldest of their 2 daughters.

Jorden is a professional musician

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 Here is Charli helping Dad practice. I guess we should call her “The Little Drummer Girl. 🙂

Wineglass Bay lookout

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 How cold & bleak does this place look?  It was a grade 3′ 40 minute walk to see the great views of Wineglass Bay. The Wasp has now declared that anything over Grade 2 is out!

Bicheno is north of Wineglass Bay

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Lunch at The Lobster Shack.

How good does this look?

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Chowder & seafood, I bet Burke & Wills never enjoyed food like this. 🙂

Stanly Beach Tasmania 

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 Located on the top left hand corner of the island.

Fresh Tassie Oysters

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 Tasmanian oysters are sustainably grown and harvested oysters coming from the oyster beds along the north, east, and south-east coasts of Tasmania. They include two different species of oysters, namely the Pacific oysters (Crassostrea gigas), and the angasi or Australian flat oysters (Ostrea angasi). 

Warren claims there were the best he has ever eaten.

Hells gate on the Gordon River

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 Located halfway up the west coast of the island. Take a cruise, spend two hours on the Gordon River including a guided boardwalk through the Unesco World Heritage Rainforest.  Our two lads actually took a 6 hour Gordon River cruise  which also included a guided tour of the previous penal settlement on Sarah Island.

Scotch fillet and Yellowtail Kingfish

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Not sure where this was, but the food looks terrific.

Launceston Cataract Gorge

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Launceston’s own piece of wilderness just 15 minutes walk from the city centre.

Many thanks for visiting my Intrepid Fearless Fortitude Endurance photo blog. I’m sure you are impressed how The Wasp & Dr Evil  throw caution to the wind while exploring new frontiers. 🙂

Australian adventures

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Counter only started June 17 2021.

Author: David Herd

My history, particularly over the last 30 years is dominated by overseas travel. I sold my home in Australia October 20th 2011 and have have been living in Thailand since then. I don’t know where the time has gone? It seems like you go to sleep one night, wake up the next morning, and 20 years have flashed by. Not sure how many years I have left, however I have enjoyed a wonderful charmed life, and if it all ended today I would leave this world with no regrets. I was born in Sydney halfway through the last century, started my travels in the 60s with the usual U.K. Europe adventure at the age of 20, back to Australia and worked in Sydney, Melbourne & Adelaide in Sales & Marketing with multinational companies including Sanyo, Canon & Remington. Engaged to be married 3 times and never quite made it to the alter, finally realized by the mid 90s I was not cut out for "long term relationships" so I moved to the Gold Coast in Queensland in January 1987, worked for a couple of banks as a Financial Planner, I took a year off work in 1998 to travel and never went back to full time work again, after 25 fun filled years on the Coast I packed up and moved to Thailand. What is the purpose of this blog? Well I really want to use it to record my travel experiences & to display my photographs, give and receive travel tips, comment on places I visit, restaurants I eat in and use it to replace the autobiography I intended to write, apart from all that it helps me fill in my day. :) I moved to Thailand mainly because I wanted to keep travelling while my health allowed me to, there are huge advantages being closer to all the places I want to visit. Cost of living in Thailand is around 35% of the cost in Australia, plus flights are 50% cheaper because you are much closer to everywhere. ???? Consequently I am able to travel to many more places compared to living in Australia. Having said all that, it is & has always been my intention to return to Australia when my travelling is finished, I predict this will happen around 2021.

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