CURRENT MISSION

Enjoy life, bushwalking, exploring wild places, meeting people, taking photos

ABOUT ME

Graeme and Geraldine are a couple of greying hippies , who live in a handbuilt natural stone, mudbrick and bottle house on the outskirts of Deloraine. This tranquil bush setting is home to many of Tasmania's native animals. Our children grew up here and are now out in the wider world in Launceston, Tasmania and Melbourne, Victoria.
There is plenty of room to enjoy this idyllic lifestyle and use as a base to explore beautiful Tasmania.
Graeme is a retired teacher who works part time in the eco-tourism industry. Geraldine teaches English as an Additional Language at a local Secondary College.
We have travelled quite a bit in Asia, and Geraldine lived in Japan for two years recently on a teacher exchange. We love to visit Japan as often as we can!
We also have a dog - an adopted border collie x kelpie who loves to play ball.

PHILOSOPHY

We try to tread softly on the planet ...

Why I’m on Couchsurfing

HOW I PARTICIPATE IN COUCHSURFING

Able to provide accommodation in a secluded handbuilt stone, bottle and adobe home on 10 hectares of bushland 5km from Deloraine township in northern, central Tasmania approx 80 minutes from Cradle Mountain, 35 minutes from Launceston and 150 minutes from Hobart.

COUCHSURFING EXPERIENCE

Hosting lovely, interesting people from all over the world. Recently, we hosted a couch surfer who actually chose to sleep on our couch!!

Interests

bushwalking, conservation, alternative energy and building, kayaking, travel, crafts, reading, photography, kangatarianism ...

• animals
• dogs
• photography
• crafts
• reading
• traveling
• socializing
• kayaking
• teaching
• tourism
• ecotourism
• parks
• mountains

Music, Movies, and Books

Movies- Top 10 -Rocky Horror Picture Show,Green Mile, Shawshank Redemption, Perfume, Young Einstein,The Curious Case of Benjamin Buttons,The Man Who Sued God,Kenny, Priscilla: Queen of the Desert, Cold Mountain
Music - Meatloaf, Alice Cooper, Guthrie ( our son Liam - see facebook; Liam Guthrie or Guthrie - also Triple J Unearthed), Jackson Browne, The Who,Bee Gees, Eagles, Tom Waits,Neil Young, Fleetwood Mac,The Whitlams,The Audreys,Paul Kelly
Books - too many to list but Tasmanian author Richard Flanagan is a must read!

One Amazing Thing I’ve Done

Participated in Stop the Franklin Dam street protest in Hobart in 1983 along with 10,000 other people!
Climbed most of the mountains in Tasmania.

Teach, Learn, Share

Able to teach stone building, adobe pizza oven building skills.
Able to show visitors some of the unique wild places in Tasmania especially Kooparoona Niara or Great Western Tiers area, Walls of Jerusalem and Cradle Mountain National Parks.

Countries I’ve Visited

Australia, Indonesia, Italy, New Zealand, Viet Nam

Countries I’ve Lived In

Australia, Japan

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