Island of Contrasts

After the many months of cold the sun has really broken through here in Southern Tasmania. The sun returns with ferocity and where a week ago it was not warm enough to sit outside for long in short sleeves now I want to lie and bask my whole body under its rays. Except like many things in Tasmania even the sun is extreme and the summer light scorches the skin. You can literally feel it burn because of our thin ozone layer.

But what a better place to be to enjoy the long daylight hours amidst the green and blue hazed hills, with clean rivers and ocean to swim in and a bounty of organic local food to eat? For those of us who have endured the sometimes painfully long cold winter finding yourself at the beginning of another heavenly Tasmanian summer makes it all worthwhile.