Made it!

Finally made it to Tasmania after our plane from Auckland to Melbourne was declared 'unusable' by engineers! 😬 They put on a smaller airplane instead.
We arrived at Auckland airport around 7am to check in but didn't leave until about 3pm in the end! The girls were pretty tired by the time we arrived in Melbourne 4hrs later, but they both did really well. We missed our connecting flight to Hobart because of the delay, so Trailfinders arranged for us to stay in the airport Holiday Inn and rebooked our flight to Hobart for lunchtime today. We all woke up around 4am because Melbourne is 2hrs behind NZ. Spent the morning hanging out at the airport hotel. Poppy charmed the staff as usual and Rosie had a meltdown because she was tired and hungry!
It was only a short flight to Hobart. We picked up the campervan after lunch and headed down to Port Arthur for the night.
Found a cool campsite here, looking forward to exploring in the morning when we can see it in daylight! It gets dark around 5.30pm here and is definitely much cooler. When we pulled up at reception to check in there was a Wallaby casually hopping about by the bins.Læs mere