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the throne of tassie

By Author: Dick Curtis
E-mail: re.curtis@virgin.net

Submitted on Wednesday 4th August 1999

The hostel board at Bicheno, Tasmania said "Stay at Piccanninni Point". Next day I walked through eucalyptus woods to the paddock.

The new local GP with trailing locks, rainbow smock and sandals, and his partner, met me. Their house was a wry home-made structure of scavenged unwanted doors, windows, beams, and panels.

He enthused about alternative medicine as their adopted family chased naked about the garden. They led me to my accommodation, an isolated wooden hut with attached cycle to pedal [pump] water to the roof tank, a sunken bath and shower among the flowerbeds and a high tree-house reached by ladder to sleep in.

Each morning, I strolled to two magnificent pines, around the rusty galvanised-sheeting erected between them, sat on my Elision throne and looked down to the distant glittering sea, as the hazy primrose dawn rose from the direction of New Zealand - poetic, and sheer bliss !