Australian House & Garden

ON HOME

To live in Tasmania is to live with the sea. Since my early 20s, I’ve dreamed of living in a house close to the beach. Not long ago, that dream came true. My home is a 100-year-old bungalow, originally built as a shack, on one of the many beaches along the Derwent River in southern Tasmania. My children are now the fourth generation of my family to live in this area. My father lived a street away from my current home during World War II and I grew

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