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Targa Tasmania: Tarraleah Stage, Friday the 1st of May, 2015

Tasmania's getting famous for all the right reasons!  Our food's great, the wine, beer and cider industries are going great guns, the scenery's spectacular and MONA has set the arts scene on fire.   And we've got Targa!  In fact, we invented it (well, if you ignore the classic Italian road race - the Targa Florio - for which it's named, that is).  The Tasmanian version has since spawned Targas in Victoria ( Targa High Country ), Adelaide and Western Australia.   As you' expect, UMPH is a big Targa fan.  For the last 23 years, he's been getting up at the crack of dawn and dragging some sleep-deprived but equally fanatical Targa-lovin' mates to freeze their collective arses off whilst scoffing eggs 'n' bacon and perving on the passing automotive parade. This year's co-conspirators were Kenny Woodheap and his son, Woodie, pictured below skulking in his hoodie.  He's the one on the right, scarfing down an egg and bacon pie, waiting for