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April 26: The first night I slept on the backseats in the car and let me tell you that was no success... My legs felt so cramped all night and I didn't really sleep much at all. On the bright side, when we got out of the car we did find the Remarkable Cave today, we had just missed the sign for it the previous night as it was already fairly dark by the time we arrived there. Unfortunately, the cave really wasn't that remarkable, but it was all-right. The next look-out we saw was Palmers look-out and after that we set out for the Coal Mine Site, which was really beautiful; lots of ruins and nice views over the ocean.
After wandering around there for a bit we went back to Hobart for the famous Salamanca Markets. They were really nice and involved eating yummy samosas, fudge tasting and finding Dutch oliebollen! There was also a guy with an adorable llama (which we'd seen when we arrived by car and were looking for a parking spot) but unfortunately we missed him when we were walking around.
We did a bit of grocery shopping after that and then went to Mount Wellington. The road to the top was narrow, windy, very long and involved many rain and hail fall. But we made it in the end, yay! While the views were beautiful it was extremely cold at the top (it was friggin' snowing!!).
Next up was a nearby city called Richmond but we took a wrong turn and had to go over the Tasman Bridge twice (lol fail!). Richmond is a historic village and really nice to walk through. It had a beautiful bridge (see pics), old school, church, cemetery, etc. And as it was already getting fairly late on the day (well, 5pm or something, but it was getting dark!) this was the last spot we visited for the day.
Sunrise
The not so Remarkable Cave
Palmer's look-out
Coal mine site
View from Mount Wellington
Do you see the snowflakes coming down?
It was so cold, omg!
Flippin' snow
The famous bridge in Richmond
April 27: This night I slept in one of the front seats like Alina (we figured out we could put the seats down almost all the way, so they were practically like beds) and while it wasn't perfect it was a least better than the day before (although it was also colder, my toes had turned into popsicles!). We drove for about 1.5 hours to Freycinet Peninsula National Park. When we arrived there we first went to the visitor's center for information on the various walks and we got the stamps for our National Park passport.
The first walk we did was very short (and still very cold) with a view on a mountain range called the Hazzards. And after that we did the most popular walk to one of Tasmania's most famous sights: Wineglass Bay. It was supposed to last about 90 minutes but we did it in 60, go us! The view was really amazing and we must've spent like 15 minutes taking pictures up there as well. Unfortunately we did this walk pretty early in the morning which meant it wasn't very light yet and our pictures aren't as good as they could've been if we had arrived a few hours later. Anyway, we did a few more short walks after that as we had plenty of time, to Honeymoon Bay, Sleepy Bay (which was so not sleepy! The water was really rough) and a lighthouse. Lastly we went back to the visitor's centre and used the sockets in the toilets for a while to charge our camera batteries and phones, since we had no other way of charging them, lol
After Freycinet we did the drive along the West Coast from Bicheno to St. Helens, getting us half a day ahead of our schedule! We stopped at St. Helens for dinner and then made our way to the amazingly gorgeous Bay of Fires (prettiest sight we've seen in all of Tasmania!). We say heaps of road kill on our way and only one wallaby that was still alive. The Bay of Fires was absolutely stunning and we spent quite a while there looking at the amazing views and the sunset before we travelled back to a camping ground to spent the night. It was still a little bit light so we made a stroll over the beach and had some really nice views from there as well.
The Hazzards
Famous Wineglass Bay
Our car at a random stop
Bay of Fires
More pictures can be found HERE and HERE.
|| Blah Tune : Di-rect - "Don't Kill Me Tonight"
April 26: The first night I slept on the backseats in the car and let me tell you that was no success... My legs felt so cramped all night and I didn't really sleep much at all. On the bright side, when we got out of the car we did find the Remarkable Cave today, we had just missed the sign for it the previous night as it was already fairly dark by the time we arrived there. Unfortunately, the cave really wasn't that remarkable, but it was all-right. The next look-out we saw was Palmers look-out and after that we set out for the Coal Mine Site, which was really beautiful; lots of ruins and nice views over the ocean.
After wandering around there for a bit we went back to Hobart for the famous Salamanca Markets. They were really nice and involved eating yummy samosas, fudge tasting and finding Dutch oliebollen! There was also a guy with an adorable llama (which we'd seen when we arrived by car and were looking for a parking spot) but unfortunately we missed him when we were walking around.
We did a bit of grocery shopping after that and then went to Mount Wellington. The road to the top was narrow, windy, very long and involved many rain and hail fall. But we made it in the end, yay! While the views were beautiful it was extremely cold at the top (it was friggin' snowing!!).
Next up was a nearby city called Richmond but we took a wrong turn and had to go over the Tasman Bridge twice (lol fail!). Richmond is a historic village and really nice to walk through. It had a beautiful bridge (see pics), old school, church, cemetery, etc. And as it was already getting fairly late on the day (well, 5pm or something, but it was getting dark!) this was the last spot we visited for the day.
Sunrise
The not so Remarkable Cave
Palmer's look-out
Coal mine site
View from Mount Wellington
Do you see the snowflakes coming down?
It was so cold, omg!
Flippin' snow
The famous bridge in Richmond
April 27: This night I slept in one of the front seats like Alina (we figured out we could put the seats down almost all the way, so they were practically like beds) and while it wasn't perfect it was a least better than the day before (although it was also colder, my toes had turned into popsicles!). We drove for about 1.5 hours to Freycinet Peninsula National Park. When we arrived there we first went to the visitor's center for information on the various walks and we got the stamps for our National Park passport.
The first walk we did was very short (and still very cold) with a view on a mountain range called the Hazzards. And after that we did the most popular walk to one of Tasmania's most famous sights: Wineglass Bay. It was supposed to last about 90 minutes but we did it in 60, go us! The view was really amazing and we must've spent like 15 minutes taking pictures up there as well. Unfortunately we did this walk pretty early in the morning which meant it wasn't very light yet and our pictures aren't as good as they could've been if we had arrived a few hours later. Anyway, we did a few more short walks after that as we had plenty of time, to Honeymoon Bay, Sleepy Bay (which was so not sleepy! The water was really rough) and a lighthouse. Lastly we went back to the visitor's centre and used the sockets in the toilets for a while to charge our camera batteries and phones, since we had no other way of charging them, lol
After Freycinet we did the drive along the West Coast from Bicheno to St. Helens, getting us half a day ahead of our schedule! We stopped at St. Helens for dinner and then made our way to the amazingly gorgeous Bay of Fires (prettiest sight we've seen in all of Tasmania!). We say heaps of road kill on our way and only one wallaby that was still alive. The Bay of Fires was absolutely stunning and we spent quite a while there looking at the amazing views and the sunset before we travelled back to a camping ground to spent the night. It was still a little bit light so we made a stroll over the beach and had some really nice views from there as well.
The Hazzards
Famous Wineglass Bay
Our car at a random stop
Bay of Fires
More pictures can be found HERE and HERE.
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Date: 2009-06-04 09:30 am (UTC)You give me more incentive to go to TAS though now :$
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Date: 2009-06-04 10:04 am (UTC)*points at icon, sadface*
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Date: 2009-06-04 09:32 am (UTC)hee llama
AWESOME PLACES AND RUINS AND BRIDGE
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Date: 2009-06-04 11:08 am (UTC)It was such a hard desicion I flipped a coin, and sorry to say Comic Con won
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Date: 2009-06-04 11:51 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2009-06-04 10:33 am (UTC)OMG did you stay long enough to see the phosphorous waves?? SO COOL! I camped... er... after Freycinet .. where.. Friendly Beach maybe? Somewhere in that general region (almost certain it was the Bay of Fires) and the waves where all lit up with phosphorous foam! SO CREEPY YET SO COOL! :D
Also, you are seriously making me want to go back to Tassie (and heck yeah, not in Winter. Gods, March last year was bad enough *shivers*).
LOL Oh yeah, Mt Wellington? An actual mountain as opposed to dinky little Mount Coot-tha. :D SNOW!
:)
Jaydeyn
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Date: 2009-06-04 11:09 am (UTC)Well it was late April when I got there, but it felt like Winter O_O
To me everything that's not entirely flat looks like a mountain ;P
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