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    A vision splendid

    Sep 06, 2017 3 minutes
    BY KIRSTY MCKENZIE, PHOTOGRAPHY BY KEN BRASS

    When Hobart chef Michael Carnes and dentist Bob Lavis went looking for an escape hatch from their busy professional lives they found precisely what they were looking for on Bruny Island, the island separated from the south-eastern coast of Tasmania by the d’Entrecasteaux Channel. They snapped up a 50-acre (20-hectare) block of land with sweeping views to Cape Queen Elizabeth and its own private beach on Adventure Bay.

    The bolthole they named Hiba has grown beyond even Bob and Michael’s dreams. While architect John Button, builder

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