Jack Absalom's: Tasmania's Wild West

[@troysvisualarts]

Totally enjoyed this episode, learned a lot about the south west coast of Tassie I never previously knew and I grew up in Tassie as a little boy in the 1980s! I do agree Cradle Mountain is Tassie's Uluru but I can also add Mt Roland near Sheffield as well because it's one amazing looking mountain with its crags!

[@truespyfan]

Jack was always a fantastic story teller.. Shame most of these story tellers like Jack, Harry Butler, Mal Douglas, Leyland Bros have gone now. :(

[@MB-qd9zy]

I love living in Tasmania

[@Blue1Sapphire]

Well done Jack & team.

[@bobthomas8175]

John Henry "Jack" Absalom 11 November 1927 - 22 March 2019 Rest in Peace

[@Rastus123]

No way….fark him!!! He lied sooo many times in this series!

[@jelkel25]

Some incredibly beautiful country, another one for the bucket list!!!

[@mariakatagiri3736]

Very good guy !! It's so wonderful to know all these things about the great Australia!!!

[@dannydoj]

an aussie living legend. Have to get some of his artwork and get to Tasmania!

[@RohanGillett]

Was very sad to see he passed away in 2019. Even in 2020 these videos of his are still relevant I think and filled with so many good tips for travellers. He was such a great speaker, very easy to listen and very engaging. A pity I will never meet him, but like you I would love to buy some of his work.

[@buzz5969]

Its been 7 years, did ya get some of his art or go to Tas yet?😊

[@rjl110919581]

THANK YOU OTHER SPECIAL DETAIL BEAUTY VIDEO ON AUSTRALIA BEAUTY BUSH

[@JohnSmith-pd1fz]

Fantastic, Yes!

[@user-kz8ik8cg2c]

a great film series of Australia

[@lilromance95]

Beautiful

[@theoneandonlyowl3764]

It's nice hearing what someone really thinks, without all the political correctness. Great show.

[@niclouds5292]

Wow, I have read about Deny but never seen him before.

[@jimrafferty5609]

Fantastic

[@creatureofleisure6360]

A "hardened prisioner" back then could be a bread thief

[@mattmcguire1577]

Highly unlikely. Very few convicts were sentenced for very petty crimes and they were in the 1780s. Most were habitual (3rd or 4th offence) criminals of the "middle order". Serious criminal offenders were hanged and minor offenders had short sentences. Generally, jails then were filled with the same type of people that fill them now. Sarah Island was for convicts that had committed crimes in the colony. So even if their original crime was bread theft, they were guilty of serious crimes in the colony. Usually multiple escapes, etc. and when all other punishments had failed. Stealing a hankerchief, the other crime often quoted in defence of the poor convicts, paid for two weeks worth of hot food. So not as petty as you would think. Some Australians think it is cool to have a convict ancestor especially one that only stole bread. This is only recent. The convict stain lasted right up to the bicentenary in 1988 and beyond for many. In Tasmania something like 75% of the population have convict ancestors. Not all would be proud of that. So much so that Tasmanian governments were slow to change processes we take for granted as ex convicts or their children may have been elected. Tasmania is still probably the most conservative state as a legacy of this.

[@marcussmart3275]

Or a drinking glass thief

[@Kevin-oh2je]

Hello Bryan Dore, bushwalker, Port Sorell, Tas

[@creoda673]

3:05 - Like the documentary but surely that's wrong? Cook on the Endeavour made contact with Aborigines many times in 1770.

[@ramblingrob4693]

Fab program . great prsenter. "Its like a Adult version of Rolf Cartoon Club"... "You can join today," "Goday"

[@jennypiper377]

IT SHOWS JUST HOW THERE ARE MORE THAN TWO SIDES TOO EVERY STORY PLUS WE JUMP TOO CONCLUSION'S THIS WAS THAT WELL DONE IF YOU DID NOT FEEL SAD?HAPPY?AND RESPECT???????????????????????? WE NEVER WILL.

[@byroncrump4390]

Still using his bush cooking book

[@Mr1952marian]

Im moving from Perth to Hobart Tasmania in 2017 . I will be placed in Sorell Hobart. European You welcome for holiday in haven.

[@Mr1952marian]

Thanks i meet you in Polish Club in Hobart.

[@stevecooper3010]

How you going out there in tasi

[@MB-qd9zy]

Most of the things at the end have changed since then

[@ramblingrob4693]

This must be 20 yrs old at least this program

[@jimconlan7510]

Robcop Westton 32 to be exact. 1985.

[@ben-vf]

Jim Conlan I miss the eighties . Australia was still Australia. Not the mess it seems to have become.

[@peteryoung2070]

@@ben-vf Yep, and what wrecked it? Flaming immigration from third world. Stuffed this country.

[@PibrochPonder]

@@peteryoung2070 that’s happened in Europe as well. Turned things into a shit hole.

[@blackie75]

@@peteryoung2070 We've got far bigger problems than the Sudanese.

[@marcussmart3275]

I think I saw the chocolate river from Willy Wonkas chocolate factory there for a few seconds.

[@ultimateadventurefishinghu8605]

cool

[@Rastus123]

And you blame Cook?….youre off your rocker!!!

[@ben-vf]

Whrre is the Sigma?

[@troysvisualarts]

Watching most of his series, it looks like he traded the Sigma for the Pajero

[@ben-vf]

😂 good upgrade.

[@missasinenomine]

22:08 " prisoners slept soaking wet all the year round". What?!

[@marcussmart3275]

You thought trench foot was bad. Imagine trench balls haha

[@matthewmann8969]

Phew

[@bertmargaretlove2103]

Sailings has

[@NeilJ894]

There's still aboriginal people in Tasmania Jack

[@Antechynus]

Yeah, they heard there was free money on offer and a bunch of Victorian bludgers moved down and claimed they were from Tasmania.

[@torqingheads]

The people from Northern Europe are the pinnacle of human evolution, the master race. We must never apologise for having a higher intelligence.

[@KyRoberts-m3j]

I'd like to see you spend a night on the west coast, intelligence really comes into play 😂

[@torqingheads]

@@KyRoberts-m3j I live on the west coast you fool.

[@leecoates4082]

the native cat hahaha its a quall funny old jack didn't know that lol

[@alainremont5392]

It is a quoll !!! Not a quall. Didn't you know that ??? And it is referred to colloquially as the native cat. Didn't you know that ??? What do you know ?.....

[@grizzlycountry1030]

The way he speaks makes me sleepy 😴

[@missasinenomine]

29:29 No gloves, no safety googles, & no ear-protectors. Lax Tasmanian regulations.

[@lolzytimes4all]

Ah shutup ya fairy, it was the nineties. There was barely OH&S back then.

[@blackie75]

I know all those guys today. None of them are deaf or blind, and they all have their fingers and toes intact. Additionally, this was 38 years ago so the regulations were a little different than they are now, in the age of lawsuits and people trying to protect us from everything.

[@Mr1952marian]

Im moving from Perth to Hobart Tasmania in 2017 . I will be placed in Sorell Hobart. European You welcome for holiday in haven.