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canetoad

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5. I am on that continent

Reply to 2naSalit (Reply #4)

Tue Apr 5, 2022, 04:33 PM

Apr 2022

Right down south - about 160km south east of Melbourne on Bass Strait - Tasmania is over the strait which is one of the windiest stretches of water in the world. All the prevailing westerlies are funnelled down the strait. It can get pretty hairy but we don't get much frost or freezing temps.

I've heard of both types of chinook - the wind and the fish. Probably a connection in the past. The first peoples here were the Boon Wurrung tribe. I laughed hearing their word for crow - Waarn. Say it out loud!

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