Dark waters of Lake Rosebery, Tullah, Tasmania -early in the morning. The water is brown due to the tannin in the vegetation, but it is in fact very clean. Spotify leaps back into life as the car lurches down the last few zig zags onto the Tullah straight. I didn’t really appreciate country music until I came here. It tells the stories of country life. I think of John Prine’s “Paradise” for example. Tullah even had a place called “Paradise” on the Macintosh River where everyone used to swim, before it was swallowed up by the Lake. Many places on the West Coast were indeed "hauled away by M r. Peabody’s coal train" or one very similar - Places like Dundas, Williamsford, Crotty, Adamsfield and Linda , to name just a few. Tullah - which means "meeting of the waters," did have a couple of near -death experiences. Silver -lead was discovered by Tom Farrell in 1892 and by 1900 two mines had sprung up at each end of the valley, each...
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