And what country can preserve its liberties if their rulers are not warned from time to time that their people preserve the spirit of resistance? Let them take arms. The remedy is to set them right as to facts, pardon and pacify them. What signify a few lives lost in a century or two? The tree of liberty must be refreshed from time to time with the blood of patriots and tyrants.
I'll tell you a true story. When I was a student, about 35 years ago two friends and I went bushwalking in Tassie. In those days it's all we could afford as broke students. You could walk for weeks in Tassie and not see another person. Didn't see any tigers while we were walking but the bush is so remote, so dense and there is no road access for tens of thousands of square miles of anything could live out there.
Flying back to the mainland on the plane my mate struck up a conversation with the gentleman sitting beside him. Turns out he was a senior manager in the National Parks Service. He told my friend that two weeks previously two rangers on patrol in a 4WD on a fire trail had seen a pair of tigers and observed them for several minutes. Further he said they regularly received good reports but as a policy they kept it all secret. They were worried if the reports were publicised people would head out bush to shoot one.
True story. And from what I know of Tassie, I believe it.
My favorite cryptid, the Tazzy Tiger. Extinct? Nope.
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ReplyDeleteI'll tell you a true story. When I was a student, about 35 years ago two friends and I went bushwalking in Tassie. In those days it's all we could afford as broke students. You could walk for weeks in Tassie and not see another person. Didn't see any tigers while we were walking but the bush is so remote, so dense and there is no road access for tens of thousands of square miles of anything could live out there.
ReplyDeleteFlying back to the mainland on the plane my mate struck up a conversation with the gentleman sitting beside him. Turns out he was a senior manager in the National Parks Service. He told my friend that two weeks previously two rangers on patrol in a 4WD on a fire trail had seen a pair of tigers and observed them for several minutes. Further he said they regularly received good reports but as a policy they kept it all secret. They were worried if the reports were publicised people would head out bush to shoot one.
True story. And from what I know of Tassie, I believe it.
Now that is the best news I have heard for awhile. Long live Thylacine!
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