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2000s: Murder in the mountains, the Hazard Mountains and the mysterious surroundings of Freycinet Park
Freycinet
What you need to know before your trail
Freycinet National Park is to be the spot for a bit of a holiday. But the name of the lodge where Ginny and her fiance Julian Rockcliffe are staying doesn’t bode well – Devil’s Lodge in the shadow of the Hazard mountains.
Ginny has doubts about her relationship with Julian and she wants him back the way he was six months ago. He on the other hand wants marriage and he is very insistent.
Their time in Freycinet is not a relaxing one – two women go missing and the become involved in the search. Ginny becomes more and more disturbed by the Hazards and starts to suspect men in the search
Just what is this place and what is going on?
Travel Guide
From the car journey to Freycinet, the tension for what is going to be a remarkable trip but for all the wrong reasons is clear. In the car journey, Ginny is having doubts about her relationship. The trip away will hopefully help them both to decide their future.
Freycinet in the shadow of the rather aptly named Hazard Mountains causes her a sense of unease from day one. The vivid colour of the landscape seems to totally overwhelm her sense and the eerie atmosphere seems too unnerving although she can’t say why.
“I should have known from the moment I saw them. We were driving towards Freycinet and I looked up and saw the Hazards. I felt an overwhelming, clammy, breathless horror. But I was also strangely drawn; drawn to stare at them, drawn to go to them.”
When two women go missing, finding then is going to be a challenge in many ways. Already in a landscape which unnerves her, Ginny starts to help search but who else is searching with her? The atmosphere is unsettling – the trees are malformed by fire with twisted leaves. She thinks of a past massacre which happened here – the true life case of Martin Bryant who killed 35 people…
“The Gorge seemed to epitomise Tasmania’s bi polar nature; one minute you were in the enchanting peacock-inhabited Fairy Dell and then you stepped around a corner and into wild, ancient, untamed bush,murky and impenetrable and treacherous.”
The tension of the atmosphere, the landscape and the scary situation build until Ginny feels the most disorientated she has ever felt. Landscape adds to the overall sense of searching in the wilderness, the unknown, the darkness and the impending sense of doom.
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