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After three years, I was fortunate enough to return to Tasmania, literally across the globe and 10 time zones; four flights were needed to get from winter Prague to early summer in Hobart.
Having relatives living in Australia and Tasmania, seeing old friends was easily combined with country exploration and adventurous trips, which is something we tried to pursue and use our 4-weeks time on the southern hemisphere to the maximum extent.
After a few lovely and relaxed family & acclimatization days in Hobart, time has come for us to leave the comfort of warm beds and friendly civilization, and to exchange it for a proper adventure comprised of hiking and travelling around the island.
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The fame of Wineglass Bay, the most celebrated beach in Tasmania, ensures a growing stream of visitors to Freycinet National Park. It is one of the east coast’s poster destinations, and the sublime national park, which is a wild domain of sugar-white beaches, pinkish granite mountains and utterly transparent water, are the reasons everyone is here.
We kept Freycinet National Park for the last days of our Tasmania road trip, saving its beautiful beaches with some lovely walking to a very relaxed adventure we planned for the very end of our journey.
Aiming to beat the crowds, we planned to stay overnight for two days at the more remote Hazards Beach, where there is a reliable fresh water source and which is luckily free of day-trippers posing for selfies at Wineglass Bay, though it's almost equally appealing (and with more calm sea waters than Wineglass).
Yet again blessed with favourable sunny weather, we slowly wandered along the secluded western coast of the peninsula, enjoying its clear sea waters and sandy beaches for numerous swims and relaxed sunbathing.
August 1976. NAHX 478060 is painted up for Cook Industries at the C&NW's Proviso Yard in Chicago, Illinois.
RAAF CA-27 Sabre VH-IPN (A94-983)
Built in Australia in 1957 by the Commonwealth Aircraft Corporation and Served the RAAF until 1971. She was then transferred to the Royal Malaysian Air Force until 1976 and then rescued from her fate and brought back home and into RAAF hands where she was put on display in Richmond and later Point Cook.
In 2006 she was transported to the Temora Aviation Museum and restrored to flying condition re-taking to the skies in 2009.
One of several Bova Futuras to have operated for Southend operator Cooks over the years snapped in Brighton this afternoon, 18th October, 2018. MH06 YZM originally provided transport for guests to the Rutland Hotel in Torquay registered S14 RUT.
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The written history of the Cooks began with the sighting of Pukapuka by the Spaniard Alvaro de Mendaña in 1595 followed by a landing on Rakahanga in 1606 by another Spanish explorer, Pedro Quiros. The British arrived off Pukapuka in 1764 and named it Danger Island because they could not land.
Between 1773 and 1779 Captain James Cook sighted and landed on many of the southern group but never came within eyeshot of Rarotonga. The infamous Captain William Bligh of the Bounty landed on Aitutaki in 1789 – he is credited with importing paw paw trees to the Cooks – and in April of that year the mutineers of the Bounty appeared off Rarotonga but, contrary to popular belief, probably did not land. Cook named the islands the Hervey Islands. In fact, he gave this name to the first island he discovered – Manuae. The name "Cook Islands" was given to the group by the Russians in honor of the great English navigator when it appeared for the first time on a Russian naval chart in the early 1800s.
The first official European sighting of Rarotonga was from the Endeavour in September/October 1813. The first known landing was by the crew of the Cumberland in 1814.
There was none on Rarotonga.
Instead, trouble broke out between the sailors and the islanders and many were killed on both sides.
The bluestockings and Rechabites were next to arrive the missionaries.
John Williams of the London Missionary Society landed on Aitutaki in 1821. Williams used Tahitian converts to carry his message to the Cook Islanders and they took to this task with great enthusiasm and were extremely successful. Williams was later killed and eaten on Erromango in the New Hebrides, now known as Vanuatu, but by then his work had been followed up and the gospels were well and truly embedded in the people's psyche.
The missionaries were responsible for the discontinuation of cannibalism. They also tried hard to fence their island converts off from the influences of European and American ships' crews and introduced schools and written language so their charges could read the scriptures. However, they also supported rigid police supervision over the people's morals and activities considered by them to be dubious.
The early missionaries estimated the population of Rarotonga at between 6000 to 7000. The impact of contact with the wider world was devastating. Western diseases spread like bushfires through the islanders and their numbers reduced dramatically during the mid-19th century to probably fewer than 2000. Since then periodic additions of people from outer islands have built Rarotonga's population back to about 10,000. In 1923 the population was reported by Stewart's Handbook of the Pacific Islands to have been '3287 natives and half-castes living as natives, and 200 whites and half-castes living as whites.'