Wednesday 17 January 2024

Targa, Tasmania

Targa is a rural area North East of Launceston and only a few klm away, it's pretty and green.  Took these shots when passing through. The first photo is of a river called St. Patrick's River.
Targa is an aboriginal word for 'cry'



Nothing like a good old scratch.



70 comments:

  1. Beautiful photos, I think the ferns are great.
    Everything is so beautifully green, here everything is bare and there is snow.
    Greetings Irma

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    1. Thank you Irma. It's a lovely area and usually always green there.

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  2. Precioso verde Margaret. También es preciosa la flor del castaño de Indias de la cabecera.Por aquí hay muchos pero la flor es blanca.
    Buena semana.
    Un abrazo.

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  3. Fun to see your landscape, it is so different than anything we have around here!

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    1. Here the landscape changes from one area to another, on the west coast it's very different.

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  4. Beautiful!

    Also, this is beautiful:

    'Music has no barriers, for it knows all languages'.

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    1. Thank you. Yes, no matter where we go music can bring us together.

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  5. Beautiful and green place.
    Great vegetation, the ferns are incredible!

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  6. Buena naturaleza, que nos sorprende, por su espléndido verdor.
    Un abrazo.

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  7. Such beautiful green, it makes one cry (targa) of joy!

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    1. Lovely there Duta. Yes, Targa for joy even though it means the near opposite.

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  8. The Tasmanian Woods, forests, and lands, are so nice and beautiful. I think that now is summer with a good climatology!!

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    1. Yes it's summer and the weather has been wonderful so far, today a good rain which is needed.

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  9. Nothing like seeing a beautiful Aberdeen Angus cow top photo and a young heifer
    in the second. Tassie beef is the best in Australia and so expensive in butcher
    shops.
    Lovely peaceful and serene photos - well done.
    Cheers
    Colin
    PS: The sun is at last out here in Terrigal !!!!

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    1. Pleased you have the sun out as I've heard about your rainy/cloudy days - it's been good down here, rain today which is needed.
      Good looking cows, nicely filled out in their green pasture.

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  10. The green is absolutely lush. So why "cry"? Is the annual rainfall sometimes unreliable?

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    1. Have no idea why white people called it Targa 'cry', the rainfall is satisfactory each year, it might be that the area is lovely so hence it would make you cry to see it...just a thought Hels.

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  11. Oh, it's beautiful... this green... this landscape and these cattle on the lush pasture.
    I would like to visit Tasmania... it's so far away...
    A happy greeting to you from Viola

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    1. Yes we live on the otherside of the world, but people come here from all over the world, well some people do - oneday you might, you just never know.
      Another very lovely place and green grasses is on the North West Coast.

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  12. It’s mystifying - and troubling too - that white settlers pretty much set out to destroy the aboriginal population, but kept some of their place names.

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    1. Some places have been renamed along with the English version David and only in the last several years mostly due to pressure from the Aboriginal people, the ones who are more educated in these matters. Targa however, has always been that name along with a few other town as well, where my late father was born was and is has an Aboriginal meaning.

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    1. Not much going on there so it does give that feeling of relaxing.

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  14. I wonder if the connection to "cry" is because the sky cries a lot, giving lots of rain. It sure does look a lush area.

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    1. You could be correct Pauline. Many reason why it's called Targa (cry). Be good to find out if I could.

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  15. Esos paisajes me parecen preciosos. Gracias Margaret.

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  16. It all looks so green.
    Lovely photographs and nice to see the ferns.

    All the best Jan

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  17. You see a very leafy and beautiful area, very green, a delight to walk around there
    Happy weekend.
    Best regards

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  18. A lovely area Margaret, I enjoyed seeing the cows in the field. The river and the greenery, beautiful! I see no green today, we had another snowfall. I also enjoyed learning an Aboriginal word, thank you! Everywhere looks beautiful and I hear the roads are clear, which is good for those who have to travel.

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    1. Keep warm Denise, not a hot day today as a cool snap is passing at 23degC...

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  19. A beautiful green landscape where the animals can live peacefully and the humans in total relax. Great photos.

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  20. Lovely to see everything green and flourish while we are in the dead of winter right now.

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  21. It looks beautiful and lush. Targa (cry) is an interesting name. Makes me wonder about the history behind it!

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    1. Made me wonder too but can't find anything on the internet about it unfortunately.

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  22. Es un bello lugar la primera foto enamora. Te mando un beso.

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  23. Love the photos, Margaret.
    How lush and verdant!

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  24. Oh my, this greenery is so lush and intense and what a beautiful, homely corner, I longed for such atmosphere...

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