Death of a fine Tasmanian sailor – Bruce Calvert
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- Death of a fine Tasmanian sailor – Bruce Calvert
- Push for Tasmanian footballers in ‘Dream Team’
- Conquering the cap
Death of a fine Tasmanian sailor – Bruce Calvert
Sail World – Nov 27, 2007
Just four weeks later on 20 November Bruce died six and a half months after being diagnosed with cancer. It was his final sail at the age of 43. Last Friday 23 November more than 500 family and friends gathered in Hobart?s St David?s Cathedral to remember a fine family man businessman and an outstanding sailor and member of The Royal Yacht Club of Tasmania since a lad. He was also a member of the Derwent Sailing Squadron.
Push for Tasmanian footballers in ‘Dream Team’
abc.net.au – Nov 27, 2007
The AFL has announced a one-off match between the best Victorian footballers and the best players from all other states and territories. The ‘Vics versus the Dream Team’ game will be held under lights at the MCG on May 10. Liberal sport and recreation spokesman Jeremy Rockliff says the government should lobby to make sure Tasmanian-born players are not overlooked for selection. “Given the level of sponsorship we provide for one of the AFL football teams and the very proud history we have of many Tasmanian players being represented in the VFL and AFL competition then we must ensure that at least the Dream Team has its fair share of Tasmanian players” he said.
Conquering the cap
The Age – Nov 27, 2007
n the way we passedthrough Derwent Bridge and the terminus of the renowned CradleMountain-Lake St Clair National Park verland Track. But where theverland Track is so popular that a one-way walking rule and limitson walker numbers have been introduced to regulate the bootedhordes Frenchman’s Cap National Park remains comparativelylow-key. But as the Tasmanian Parks and Wildlife Service warns in itsliterature Frenchman’s “is considerably more arduous than manyother Tasmanian walks including the verland Track”. The Frenchman’s Cap walk traditionally begins with a groupphotograph beneath the Frenchman’s Cap sign. After registering ourwalk details in the track logbook we walked to the Franklin River -the same Franklin that in 1983 international outcry and a HighCourt ruling saved from becoming part of a new hydro-electricityimpoundment. Two years after that victory a teenager and his mates hauledthemselves and their packs across the Franklin in a flying fox asthey embarked on their first Frenchman’s Cap walk; 21 years laterand I’m no longer a teenager I’m back with a different set ofmates but disappointingly there’s no flying fox. Nowadays aspringy one-at-a-time suspension bridge gets you across the riverin seconds… For Frenchman’s Cap walkers this seemingly endless button-grassbog is the first day’s major obstacle. The first hour away from theriver is a long uphill drag around Mount Mullens but it is not asmentally demanding or physically taxing as the Sodding Loddons. Unlike many popular Tasmanian walking tracks only a tiny partof the Loddons has been boarded. This has resulted in anever-spreading network of unofficial tracks as successive walkersattempt to avoid the worst of the mud. Make no mistake whatever strategy you use you’re going to getvery muddy. After carefully and cleanly negotiating the earlysections you’ll invariably step onto a solid-looking piece of trackand suddenly it will swallow you up to your knees. After spells ofwet weather that could mean sinking up to your waist.
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