Unless there are some on the mainland?
Mainland? I thought I read about a forest a very tal gums on the Southwest corner (okay, that's more than a couple days' drive from where you are). Maybe elsewhere. The soil is so delicate that they've suspended catwalks in the top of the trees, so you can walk through the canopy.
But maybe I dreamed it.
Re wanderlust, I am so sorry I didn't travel more, earlier. A liberal vote here for doing it...
Ah- yes! Western Australia has a big tree or two.
I was thinking of Tasmania.
Saw pictures of the last Tasmanians recently. Very sad.
the ones with two heads are white, no?
Just kidding.
Huge Tasmanian history controversy happening in history fields at present.
The current received opinion is that it was deliberate genocide, right?
Opposing view being put forward that this is much exaggerated - based on biased or inaccurate use of sources, ideologically driven etc.
Massive scholarly bunfight, joined by, of course, political sides.
History as media fodder and a gladiatorial spectacle! Hardly ever seen the like.
Huh. The book I was reading is 12 years old, and the author does have an axe to grind. Still, I can hardly imagine that a glowing portrait will emerge. Human history is practically defined by new groups of people moving in and wiping out indigenous groups of people and animals, probably all the back to the extinction of the Neanderthals and the giant marsupials and the giant deer and the North American elephant and...
Walter Hinteler wrote:I'm out as well, since comradethren weren't mentioned either ...
(McG: I honestly feel sorry for you that you weren't included in Thomas' post!)
McGentrix is clearly an inside-the-closet liberal. I can see him fall off the wagon and vote for Ralph Nader anytime. Therefore I couldn't include him on my very short list of consistent conservatives.
(Translation: I didn't get McG.'s joke when he made it, but I'd rather go to hell than admit that! :wink: )
