Tasmania - Devils, Platypus, and Rare White Wallaby

Sky watching in Tasmania

Week three in Tasmania started on the Northwest side of the island.  We wove our way south and east from Stanley, through  Cradle Mountain National Park, Queenstown, Lake St. Clair, Strahan, Mt Field National Park, down to Hobart on the West coast and on to Cape Bruny close to the most southern point of Australia.

We are currently in Adventure Bay on the Island off of the main island of Tasmania in a caravan holiday park on the beach of Captain Cook's 1777 landing here in Tasmania.





















On our Tasmanian adventure we've spotted devils,

wombats (couldn't get a good night time shot of these guys),  tiger snakes (one slithered right across our trail, very venomous creature),

platypus,

and a rare white wallaby on Bruny Island.  We thought we had been sent off on a "snipe hunt" to try and find a white wallaby.  But indeed, just at dusk we found ourselves just like Alice chasing after the great white rabbit, glimpsing a both a rare white and black wallaby together.

We've hiked numerous trails enjoying cobalt lakes, towering mountains,

Dove Lake and Cradle Mountain

tall gums,

fern forests,

waterfalls,

Russell Falls

Horseshoe Falls

Russell Falls - Just had to to see this one for some reason!

sandy beaches,

Crab art....rosettes

 headlands, lighthouses,  and ocean vistas.

Incredibly beautiful skies!

Robin Red Breast

In Tasmania, the people here are used to all four seasons in one day.  It can change from clear skies and shorts, to wind, clouds, and rain all in one day.  Consequently, we wear lots of layers and shed our skins as the sun comes out.

We've explored the history of Hobart, visiting the oldest jail in Tasmania,

Bricks border cell size...communal tub and toilet

13 knots - 12 jurors and 1 judge

the MONA (Museum of New and Old Art)

MONA - CONFRONTING ART

the Maritime Museum, The Royal Tasmanian Yacht Club, the Salamanca Market, quaint cottage lined streets,

fisherman's' wharf,

Crab traps

and the Sea Shepherd's sealife protection boat, the Bob Barker.

Bob Barker named for Price Is Right Host who donated $5,000,000 to the the cause. 

Bob Barker just returned from the arctic water whale sanctuary where they successfully saved over 700 whales from being illegally poached by Japanese whalers.

We are off here in a little while for a hike around the peninsula at Adventure Bay and to the Bligh Museum.  Tomorrow, we will head back to the mainland and up the east coast and central part of Tasmania back to Devonport where we started to catch the ferry back to mainland Australia next Sunday.

All is well with the 2 Land Travel R's.