Local Man Admits Vacuum Cleaning Front Lawn

In a revelation into 1st world problems two significant issues arose, Sunday 5th May 2019.

Local man, P Larkey advised, unprompted that in order to clean up bird feathers from he and his wife Annabel's front lawn, he actually keeps a spare vacuum cleaner in the garden shed, and periodically sucks up the feathers (presumably hand picking the broken and crunched bones and leatherised skin).

"It won't go away with a normal lawn mowing, and detracts from the look of the lawn" - Mr Larkey, former now retired senior secondary State school teacher in literature told your reporter at the Driftwood Restaurant - Lauderdale, Tasmania.

The revelations were clearly a shock to Mr Larkey's companions: see graphic: 

Porter, Kozlow and Fitzgibbon debate alternative and more carbon neutral methods of removing bird feathers from their garden lawns.

Meanwhile, in other States, with the State Upper House election still undecided, complaints that the candidates had not yet revealed their policy on bird feather removal left erstwhile bicyclist club member, M Simmons, to seek out advice from those participating in the Adani Coal Mine Protest.

Graphic: Merv Simmons with lesser known Republican, B Brown at the Adani Coal Mine Club BBQ, Canberra - Mr Brown could offer no better alternative to clearing bird feathers. "Bird feathers are the bane of my life" - he said, whilst roasting a little quail over the gas BBQ supplied from methane gas capture devices.

"Perhaps get environment department approval for an open cut mine where the bird landed?", Merv suggested. But deaf ears were evident.

In other entertainments today, the Bicyclist Group attended Hill St Lauderdale for a jaunt along the foreshore track from there to Seven Mile Beach (and return). In a little over 1 hr 10 m the 15 km trip was found by all to be an entertaining ride, and would certainly be appropriate for a leisurely walk.

The track runs along the bluff, and from beach to beach, in front of a number of salubrious residential dwelling, overlooking Frederick Henry Bay, over to the Tasman Peninsula.

Now, we must be careful and discombobulate this situation:

The original Frederick Henrik Bay (today's Blackman Bay and Marion Bay) was discovered by Abel Tasman in 1642 and named after Frederick Henry, Prince of Orange. 

But I don't think that is the FHB near the Hobart Airport.

This is the view we saw:

A bit more historical detail, from the wiki site, might help put you to sleep:

It was first discovered and named “Baie du Nord” (North Bay) by Bruni d'Entrecasteaux in 1792-93.^[2] The original Frederick Henrik Bay (today's Blackman Bay and Marion Bay) was discovered by Abel Tasman in 1642 and named after Frederick Henry, Prince of Orange.

In March 1773 Captain Tobias Furneaux, the first Englishman in Tasmanian waters, glimpsed the opening to D'Entrecasteaux Channel, thought that was Storm Bay, then anchored in Adventure Bay thinking he was in the vicinity of North Bay. He erroneously identified the Northern cape of Adventure Bay (today's Cape Queen Elizabeth), as Cape Frederick Henry, and d'Entrecasteaux's North Bay as Tasman’s Fredrick Henrik Bay, and recorded these on his map.

This error was also made by Cook and Bligh etc, relying on Furneaux's mapping. Matthew Flinders adjusted his 1814 map, however the name Frederick Henry Bay remained in its present-day location.^[3]

Around 1784–85, Henri Peyroux de la Coudreniere wrote a "memoir on the advantages to be gained for the Spanish crown by the settlement of Van Dieman's Land.^[4] After receiving no response from the Spanish government, Peyroux proposed it to the French government, as "Mémoire sur les avantages qui résulteraient d'une colonie puissante à la terre de Diémen". He noted that in Frederick Henry Bay, "we find an excellent harbour, where one can anchor in 14 fathoms sheltered from the wind. The country offers an enchanting appearance and the climate is pure and healthy. We read in Cook's voyages that the soil is fertile; it produces the largest and the tallest trees in the world, their trunks are seen to be 90 feet high without any forks". He said it was a particularly favorable site for a base in Van Diemens Land.^[5] It was perhaps no coincidence that in his Royal Instructions, D'Entrecasteaux was ordered to investigate the Bay.^[6]

The bay was identified as a national drowning blackspot in 2008.^[7] As a result, surf life savers patrols in the area increased.

Over and out, and watch out for feathers!