A foodie trail: Tasmania s Northern Forage
14 Mar, 2021 11:00 AM
5 minutes to read
Following the wild coastline of Bass Strait is an opportunity to fill up on northern Tasmania’s incredible array of delicious offerings, with plenty of detours to distract all the senses along the way.
Perhaps it s because it has some of the cleanest air in the world but a trip around Tasmania s northern coast sure works up an appetite. Which is just as well, because this stretch bordered by the Bass Straight produces some outstanding culinary options, with some of the most fertile farms and pasture in Australia and passionate culinary folk ready to make the most of it. In between mouthfuls, you ll be treated to beaches and mountains on the east side of the Tamar River, an abundance of wildlife on its west side, ocean views will propel your journey across the fertile food bowl of the central north, and in the north west, Australia s largest cool-climate rainforest will clear the lungs. Here s a t
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When she was at her lowest, before becoming the sort of person who has the ear and admiration of premiers and governors, Emma Lee worked at a petrol station. It was 2011. She was 38. Sheâd âcrashed and burnedâ, as she describes it, losing her first marriage, her money, her mojo. After a successful career as an archaeologist, and a manager at Uluru-Kata Tjuta National Park, her whole world had shrunk to the grey concrete forecourt at Woolworths Caltex in her home town of Wynyard, on Tasmaniaâs north-west coast. For 18 months she healed, slowly rebuilding herself and, from behind the kiosk counter, finding the inspiration for a new approach to Aboriginal rights â a method that would, only four years later, start to bear fruit with then Tasmanian premier, Will Hodgman.