Greetings from Tasmania

[spacejam0]

Giday Everyone
It's been a while. Last year you may remember I sold off all my pinnies as we decided to make a huge lifestyle change and leave the hustle and bussle of inner city Melbourne for bush/sea change.
Well it's been a huge 8 or so months leaving our jobs, doing up and selling our house and selling off or giving away over half of our possessions to live a minimalist eco friendly lifestyle away from it all.
Well 3 weeks ago we arrived in our new home in St Helens on the N/E coast of Tassie. We have 33 acres in the middle of a really thick gum forest and only 3 minutes drive from the ocean. We are totally off grid with tank water, solar batteries, bottled gas and satellite internet in our beautiful rendered hay bale home, a huge change for us which we are really loving with no regrets.
We are running a small dog boarding and cat boarding business which is a perfect fit for us as we love animals.
I must admit that I do miss the pinballs and it was nice to have a few games on the Spirit of Tassie on the move over.
Wishing everyone on AP well.
Cheers Tim

[Strangeways]

Living the Dream ! No car congestion, pollution.. or crowds ! 
Will you setup a small farm and live off the land ? I have friends in Tassie that live off the land and would never return to our mad world !
Fishing any good ?

[Cursed]

Congrats mate! The missus and I fully intend to move to Tassie when we retire.

Absolutely love the place! Thanks for sharing and enjoy that fresh air.

[McKie1]

Congrats mate! The missus and I fully intend to move to Tassie when we retire.

Absolutely love the place! Thanks for sharing and enjoy that fresh air.

Sad face :(

We will miss u both.

No more meets - argh!!!

[ktm450]

Looks great! We passed through St. Helens January last year on a trip around Tassie. Such a beautiful place.

[pinnies4me]

Sounds wonderful, glad you are enjoying it. I would love to be off grid....

[oldskool1969]

Any surf near by? Then you will be happy :-)

[spacejam0]

Nino..2 cars = a traffic jam here  . We are in the process of fencing off about 1/2 of an acre as a vegetable garden and will put in some fruit trees. I have also just started doing up an old chook coupe will I found in the scrub for 6 to 8 chooks. The fishing in the bay down the road is considered the best bay fishing in Australia with as many wild oysters and muscles as you need. Also have the continental shelf about 10 k/m off shore if you want to do some game fishing. I am in the process of buying a new boat but have been shore fishing twice since we got here and cleaned up both times. The goal is to be 30 to 50% self sufficient off the land and sea.


Oldschool..I'm not a surfer but according to my brother who is a surfing nut the surf here is excellent.


Cheers

[DallasJ]

Wow huge change. I grew up in Tassie, Hobart, still miss it after being away 18 years, but doubt I’ll move back. You’ve moved to a nice area, Hobart has grown a lot housing wise now and is more congested than the 90s.


I do miss the east coast roads on my motorbike, riding to find a new pinny to play of course 


Enjoy the space....

[shaneo]

G'day Tim, hope this finds you well.
I was playing some games tonight, and realized I still have every game I have bought from you (all crackers) so just a quick howdy.

I can't work them mobile thingies, but you know when next in Canberra...