Kentish Hotel, Oatlands, Tasmania

Oatlands is 166km from Launceston and takes about 1 hour and 14 minutes if you get a good run as in driving.  Husband and I went there the other day for lunch, made up our minds and off we went.  Oatlands is in the country just off the highway to Hobart down south and Launceston to the north.  Oatlands is the most intact Georgian town in Australia and it's the town where I was born but never lived there.

The Hotel we went to for lunch is the only one there, called the Oatlands Hotel once, now called The Kentish Hotel and is a heritage listed country pub, was built in 1832 and is considered a community hub, offering a bar, restaurant, cafe, and accommodation. 

The first photo is of the Hotel which has been made a little more modern on the inside. It's been given a coat of paint on the outside.  

2nd photo is part of Lake Dulverton where we once used to stay overnight in the caravan, sometimes. 

3rd photo is of the dining room and cafe.

There will be more photos in another post of the buildings.

Oatlands on the map has the red dots around it and is above Hobart.

Dingoes

Dingoes are believed to have been introduced into Australia by Aboriginal peoples between 4,600 and 18,300 thousand years ago and may have come from ancient domestic dogs in East Asia.  The dingo's status as a native or introduced species in Australia has been a controversy.  According to Miike Letnic of the University of New South Wales, the dingo, as Australia's top predator, has an important role in maintaining the balance of nature.  Where dingoes had been excluded by the fence dingo fence, Letnic found reduced biodiversity, with fewer native mammals.   Wikipedia.

There are no dingoes in Tasmania.

A few facts about Dingoes, they do not bark like a dog but howl, chortle, yelp, whine, growl, chatter, snort, cough and purr.

They have a broad diet including fresh meat, fish, eggs and carrion.

They have a strict social hierarchy and regularly mate for life.

Their breeding cycle, March to June.

They bite humans sometimes and have been known to take babies.

These photos are borrowed.  I have photos of dingoes, but they are not as good as these.