A lasting influence? Lady Jane's "Ancanthe" On my next visit, I started walking west from the Milk Factory at the end of Augusta Road. There was a dairy on this corner from as early 1932 when the Baker family delivered milk locally by horse and cart. By the 1940’s it was a statewide operation and by 1967 it was national. Several name changes and changes of ownership later, the company is now part of an international corporation that supplies some of our most popular brands of milk, cheese and yoghurt. I knew that the Rivulet continued beyond it, not only because of the waterfall walk, but because I had once helped out with some water testing by the Kangaroo Valley Bushcare Group (Lenah is the Aboriginal word for Kangaroo) who, together with both councils (Glenorchy and Hobart), have done a lot of rehabilitation work along its banks. The first part of the track follows the Rivulet along busy Lenah Valley Road. There's an amazing variety of homes here -t...
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