Cassowary Crossing

Captain Cook chased a chook
All around Australia
He lost his pants in the middle of France
And landed in Tasmania.
If a kid’s ditty sums up your Captain Cook knowledge, then let me recommend two things:
1) Blue Latitudes: Boldly Going Where Cook Has Been Before, the salty romp by Tony Horwitz who retraces the wake of Cook’s great […]

Matthew Brady was a daring bugger. In 1824 the bushranger rode into Sorell, 26kms east of Hobart Town, bold as you please, locking up the soldiers in their own garrison, pinching their weapons, freeing the prisoners, and generally making merry.
As some kind of ironic joke, the township has erected a monument to a sleeping […]