Editorial: Port Arthur

Letters: Readers’ letters from around the world.

Food: The Tasmanian Tale of the Egyptian Quail by Liz McLeod
Quails in Tasmania

The Irreverent Evers by Nick Evers
Nick Evers looks inside the family vaults to discover the source of non-intrusive eccentric gene.

Sci-Tech: by Jessica Dietzel
Building the Japanese market and the story of StrathAyr, Tasmania’s turf specialist.

Portfolio: Terence Bogue

Why the World Begins Where It Appears to End by Mike Jenkinson D: Jenko’s  encyclopaedia-in-progress, Tasmania: A Trivia Trip.

A Photographer’s Spring Calendar

Parks: What’s new in the national parks.

Almanac: What’s on in Tasmania.

Waypoints: Information on Tasmania and Tasmanians.

Adventures: Ecotourism and travel.

Parting Shot: The Maria Island ferry in 1908.

Myths Floating on the Tides of History by Pete Hay
The myths of Port Arthur.

We Will come to Terms with It by Margaret Scott
Port Arthur massacre – Tasmania’s loss of innocence?

‘… a Beautiful Spot, Bathed in a Wide, Sad Silence.’ by John Wadsley
Madge Turner visited Port Arthur in 1912.

The Border Town of Ross by Rosemary Ann Ogilvie
Ross: the town where Temptation, Recreation, Salvation and Damnation meet.

The Bronze Age of Stephen Walker by Steve Bunk
Perhaps Tasmania’s busiest sculptor.

It’s Going Overboard by Brendon Bowes
Liferaft Systems make travelling by ferry safer.

The Hit by Bernard Lloyd
A tuna-fishing trip off Cape Pillar.

The Green, Green Grass of Home by Peter Grant
The wildlife living in your lawn.

The Renaissance of Timber by Rachel Morse
The second Auatralian Wooden Boat Festival.