A Travel Blog
Although yesterday proved pretty adventurous, this day felt like the real start of the trip. Our first stop, after an early-ish breakfast, was the Australian Arid Lands Botanic Garden. We arrived there at 8am. (You know what tours are like!) It was a little brisk but clear and sunny after the wild day preceding it so we … Read more
You know how there are, for many places in the world, tourist must-dos? In Paris you must climb the Eiffel Tower, for example. Well, in Tasmania, doing a Gordon River cruise is one of these. I have done it before, but back in 1974. I don’t remember a lot except that it was beautiful. Len … Read more
… are the words that characterised our day. Let’s start with windy and winding First plan for the day was to tackle the Nut (an old volcanic plug), so we walked up our street to the beginning of the walk and decided to stick with our plan of walking up and chair-lifting down (to save … Read more
After my recent praise of the weather, today dawned grey and a bit drizzly. Well, we thought, we can’t be greedy, and it is a driving day. In fact, as it was a driving day, we thought we’d just write one post for our two nights in Stanley, but then we decided that two shorter … Read more
Before we talk about today’s adventures, we did want to mention an important topic for all road-trippers, road kill! We’ve seen rather a lot here – mostly smaller kill than the kangaroos and occasional wombat or fox we have around our way. Ian observed to us that this amount of road kill is new in Tasmania. … Read more