Quamby Pines Chalet

Another satisfied customer

From
Tim & Pip
Thanks for the great Hospitality, we especially loved "PETE" Great attitude
Tim Morris MHA
http://www.tas.greens.org.au/

It's nice to be recognized by an MHA as an environmental friendly accommodation, specially rewarding if this person happens to be the GREEN representative of your electorate. Thank you Tim and Pip, we love yous
Heinz & Cely
Hi Tim the Honey you sold at the Deloraine Show http://www.about-australia.com/events/tasmania/devonport-cradle-mountain/events/exhibition-show/deloraine-show/ would be the best tasting Honey I tasted in ages and being raw untreated is a special bonus "pure golden health". http://www.ghchealth.com/natural-health/health-benefits-of-organic-locally-grown-raw-honey/
Two young Emus are our new edition to Quamby Pines, they are excitingly stupid.

It's on again

Tasbash at Quamby Pines Chalet http://www.varietytas.org.au/html/bash.htm

Launceston's FestiVale would be the BEST Tasmania has to offer in FOOD and WINE this year it is 8,9 & 10th of Fab.
http://www.festivale.com.au/

Deloraine Craft Fair is on again, the best, biggest and most friendly Craft Fair in Australia, not bad for the smallest State of the Commonwealth. http://www.tascraftfair.com.au/
For the best of snack food's at the Fair go and see Gill & Lyn for unique product's http://www.nutsnmore.com.au/ also selling Tasmania's own Nuts from Webster http://www.websterltd.com/Walnuts/Products.php

Ten Days on the Island is a major Art and Culturer Advent, spread over the whole State
http://www.tendaysontheisland.com/ http://www.tendaysontheisland.com/subpage.jsp?pageID=aboutus
Ten Days on the Island burst on to the cultural scene in 2001 with a unique celebration of island culture that firmly placed Tasmania on the world stage. Now eagerly anticipated and celebrated as Tasmania's premier statewide cultural event, Ten Days on the Island attracts an audience of over 160,000 people at more than 40 locations across the state. The multi art form program explores the cultural uniqueness of islands presenting international artists and acts from island locations alongside Australia's finest talent. Importantly, more than half of the program features Tasmanian artists.

Agfest is an event organised by the Rural Youth Organisation of Tasmania. Volunteers spend thousands of hours organising and working to ensure everyone www.agfest.com.au/

Targa Tasmania is an exciting International Classic. A tarmac rally with competitive stages on closed roads for the best touring, sports and GT cars in the world. It's inaugural year was in April 1992 when Tasmania hosted this distinguished International motoring Classic. http://www.targa.org.au/index.html
Quamby Brook Targa Stage 29/04/09 from 1:21pm till 5:51pm

V8 Super car Championship at Symmons Plains is a well recognised event in the motor racing circuit http://www.about-australia.com/events/tasmania/heritage-highway/events/sport/2006-v8-supercar-championship-series-ferodo-tasmania-challenge/

For more Tasmanian events go to
http://www.puretasmania.com.au/default.asp?pID=30

For other Tasmanian events go to http://campaigns.discovertasmania.com/intrastate/tas-discoveries/competition_page.html or more general happenings
http://www.discovertasmania.com/events

Hobat Beer Festival http://www.tasmanianbeerfest.com.au/ 14/11/09

"Spring/Summer gardening at Quamby Pines

Spring/Summer is a very busy time in the garden and Cely is flat out digging and planting. Cely maintains a beautiful flower Garden and also a quite substantial Vegie patch. We also planted around 100 Olive trees and had the immediate task of fencing it in, as the pottaroos gone strait on the attack and started to ring bark the young trees. It be nice to look forward to producing our own Olive Oil, with Extra Virgin Olive Oil grown in an totally chemical free environment being something to crow about. At a later stage our Guest may be able to purchase 250 and 500ml Bottles of the finest organic Oil. We just planted some Goji and blue berries, they are very well suited for the temperate Tasmanian climate.

The green House is used for a constant supply of wheat grass, which also was discovered by a large Family of blue wren now using it for their own health trip, clever little Birdies. The green House is used for the infrared Sauna for a total relaxing experience. If the weather is a bit rotten you can also use it to cook your BBQ there.

Magnificent four seasons in beautiful Tasmania

October to April at Quamby Pines; We had a very, very wet August, September and October (260mm rain, 123mm, 54mm), early in Spring the Grass didn't grow very well, due to very the unseasonal wet and cold weather. However by December it made up and you can hardly see the Cows. I have never seen grass like it. The Platypus or should I say Platypuses are getting very active, the rainbow trout are jumping, we restocked 350 of them in March and another 120 in September. Mid-December one of our Guests caught 3 of them with a respectable size of around 500gr each. The colder weather brought a flock of yellow crested cockatoo's to our place, they love the pine cones, I don't know for how long they booked in for? The lovely bumble-bees are starting to come out of their hibernation.
The Miniature Hereford's had their first calves, Milky had a handsome boy and December a gorgeous girl, Amy our oldest cow had another boy. Our Dorper Sheep had their first drop and the Wiltshire one had two girls, one black and one white, lovely to see them play together. The Deer had their three Fawn's at the beginning of December, it is my favorite pastime, spotting them little fellows. Our Young Guest Amy named them all, the whitish one is now called "Snowy", the spotted one "Speckled'y" and the dark one "Dusty".
Cely's Spring Flowers are making a magnificent display and all the trees start to get their leaves popping out, it's marvelous, really words cant describe the beauty of the place. The Wonder's of CREATION are never ending and Quamby Pines is the perfect place to observe it, just look at the picture of harmony.
Some confirmation at http://www.creationontheweb.com/ but always use your own judgment.