Slideshow Index: Tasmania
- 13 January, drove to Melbourne from Bairnsdale. 14 January, early flight from Melbourne to Launceston, Tasmania.
- The Launceston airport
- There is a beautiful chairlift ride in the heart of Launceston
- On the lift over Cataract Gorge
- An emu at a small zoo near Launceston
- A sleepy koala
- Two eastern grey kangaroos getting some attention
- We stayed at Brickendon Estates near Longford. We had our own pet chickens in the back yard.
- Old settler houses, small, but very comfortable.
- A sign about Brickendon
- Great place to eat in Longford. We had lamb shanks.
- A wild turkey in the yard in the morning.
- 15 January (Sun) Driving from Launceston to Swansea on The Tasman Highway
- Loved the entrance to Scottsdale on the way to Freycinet Park and Swansea.
- This is a beautiful park on the east coast of Tasmania.
- A wallaby greets Kathy after a long climb to the view of Wineglass Bay in Freycinet National Park
- Wineglass Bay is one of the most photographed spots in Tasmania
- On the way back from Wineglass Bay Lookout
- The view from our hotel in Swansea
- 16 January (Mon) On the way to Port Arthur from Swansea. We stopped at Eaglehawk Neck to see the Tasman Arch.
- We lucked out. An echidna was rooting for ants along the path from the Tasman Arch. This is the other australian mammal.
- The Devils Kitchen is down the path from the Tasman Arch
- The entrance to the Port Arthur history museum
- Port Arthur was the dumping ground for Australias most dangerous convicts.
- The Commandants house and the hospital ruins
- Prison officials homes
- English style gardens
- 17 January (Tue) Drive to Hobart, the Tasmanian capital, via Richmond. This bridge, built in 1837 is the oldest in Tasmania.
- St. Johns, oldest Catholic church in Australia (1837).
- Horse and buggy rides in Richmond.
- Could not resist the ice cream and taffy
- Hobart Van Diemens Land Folk Musesum (1834)
- Museum shows how early settlers lived
- Battery Point home
- Salamanca Place, shops and restaurants
- 18 January (Wed) Bonoron Wildlife Park, a teenage wombat, around 20 pounds
- These marsupials reach a weight of 40 pounds
- One of the Tasmanian Devils, an endangered species
- They are dying out from a viral facial cancer spread by fighting
- Nasty little critters with a unique snarl
- This male koala was uttering a deep mating call when we walked up
- This is a large male
- One of Australias barn owls
- Arnie feeding an eastern grey kangaroo
- Kathy feeding one. They can be up to six feet tall.
- The famous kookaburra bird with the laughing call
- A last lunch in Richmond before catching our plane to Melbourne