New Zealand Woman’s Weekly

A WILD Tassie isle

They were right about the wildlife. “Teeming”, they promised. “And so laid-back!” So, on day two of our four-day walk along the length of Maria Island, a National Park sanctuary up the coast from Hobart in Tasmania, we shouldn’t really have been astonished when a wombat trundled right up to us and sniffed guide Sharna’s boot.

We were less delighted

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