An alien village? No, just rock cairns

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While at Cataract Gorge in Launceston, Tasmania, we saw these little cairns that people had built with small stones on the banks of the lake there. It looks rather like a strange alien village. The park was designed for the pleasure and pastime of the early settlers but there were strict rules as to the activities that could be enjoyed there. There was to be no boisterousness, no bad language, no discharging firearms or using catapults and no playing games. Use of the play equipment – swings, maypoles and see-saws – was forbidden on Sundays. Just to make sure the people behaved with decorum, the swings were chained to stop people from using them. That wouldn’t go down well nowadays, would it?