Clan Does Tasmania 2021

The Holland and Sumpton Clan take a summer sojourn to Australia's southern most state to celebrate Josh's graduation from high school!! What adventures will they have? Stay tuned!!! Read more

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Clan Does Tasmania 2021
Hellyer's Road Distillery
December 20, 2021 in Australia ⋅ 🌧 15 °C
I would have liked to stay longer and do the tour and tastings but as this is the last day we have in North Tasmania before we go south, we needed to make the most of it 🙂🙂🙂
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Lower Crackpot
December 20, 2021 in Australia ⋅ ⛅ 15 °C
This is where we had lunch 🙂 We would have gone into the mazes but so expensive!
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Cataract Gorge part 2
December 21, 2021 in Australia ⋅ ☀️ 19 °C
At Mac's suggestion, we returned here after leaving Deloraine and I'm so glad we did! Mac and I swam in the pool and he tried to swim in the Gorge but even he baulked at that!!! Onto Ross now
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Return to Cataract Gorge
December 21, 2021 in Australia ⋅ ☀️ 19 °C
Since we had to pass back thorough Launceston we had to revisit one of our favourite places here. I did the chairlift and discovered that peacocks can climb trees!!
Mac attempted to swim in the gorge but lasted about 2 seconds when he put his feet in!Read more
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Ross
December 21, 2021 in Australia ⋅ ☀️ 24 °C
We haven't ventured into this beautiful village as yet! Founded in 1821, Ross is a historic village with a penal colony past and was named by Governor Lachlan Macquarie after the seat of Ross in the British parliament, which was held by his friend, H Buchanan of Loch Lomond.

I am hoping to see the historic sandstone bridge built in 1836 which crosses the Macquarie River soon!

Here are some pictures of our digs for the night and me!!Read more
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Ross 2
December 21, 2021 in Australia ⋅ ☀️ 22 °C
We are venturing into this beautiful village 😊😊😊😊😊😊
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Ross 3
December 22, 2021 in Australia ⋅ ⛅ 15 °C
More photographs of this beautiful village 😊😊😊💜💜💜💜 And Mac and Nik were able to dog-sit in the main street 😊😊😊😊
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Ross 4
December 22, 2021 in Australia ⋅ ☁️ 15 °C
More photographs of our walk through Ross
Suzie Holland Ross Bridge 1836 😊😊
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Sorell Barracks
December 22, 2021 in Australia ⋅ ⛅ 18 °C
Circa 1827, Sorell Barracks B and B is perfect for a history buff!! The doorways are low to denote the height of the soldiers that were stationed here. It's full of post colonial beauty 💜💜💜
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Port Arthur Lavender
December 23, 2021 in Australia ⋅ ⛅ 14 °C
We last visited this gorgeous lavender farm and distillery in January this year and it's even more beautiful than last time!! It's so good to show the boys this wonderful place and all its beauty 💜💜💜💜💜Read more
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Port Arthur Historical Site
December 24, 2021 in Australia ⋅ ⛅ 17 °C
This is the second time I have been here and it's just as eerie. In just about to go back out and hope I can stay out of the sun!

Beginning as a small wooden penal colony, it grew into one of the largest penal colonies in Australia and convict repeat offenders were sent there.Read more
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White Beach
December 25, 2021 in Australia ⋅ ⛅ 16 °C
This is one of my favourite beaches in Tasmania 💜💜💜💜 Fell in love with it the last time I was here 💜💜💜 And of course I went in!!! 🤣🤣🤣🤣
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Coal Mines Historic Site
December 25, 2021 in Australia ⋅ ☀️ 18 °C
This site is where convicts were sent to mine coal. Beautiful view, harsh conditions
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Fossil Bay Lookout
December 25, 2021 in Australia ⋅ ☀️ 19 °C
It's chilly up here!!!! Wind blowing straight off Antarctica and I think I can see the South Island of New Zealand from here!! Which is the next land mass in this direction 💜💜💜
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Tasman Arch
December 25, 2021 in Australia ⋅ ☀️ 20 °C
This used to be a sea cave!!
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Devil's Kitchen
December 25, 2021 in Australia ⋅ ☀️ 20 °C
I have wanted to see this for a while!! Also used to be a sea cave and the roof has caved in.
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Christmas Dinner in Nubeena
December 25, 2021 in Australia ⋅ ☀️ 18 °C
This is where we also had Christmas lunch 😄 It has a BBQ and Trev is cooking up delicious sausages while Mac and Josh explored 😄😄😄 It's so chilly!!!
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Maignon Bay Lookout
December 25, 2021 in Australia ⋅ ☀️ 15 °C
Next land mass.... Antarctica!!! And the winds let us know it!!
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Remarkable Cave
December 25, 2021 in Australia ⋅ ☀️ 15 °C
Coming back to this beautiful cave fills me with happy!! Nik and Mac even ventured down into the cave....or as far as they could get!! It's truly beautiful 💜💜💜💜
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Tasmanian Devil Unzoo
December 26, 2021 in Australia ⋅ ⛅ 13 °C
I usually don't like zoo's for the same reason I don't like circuses - I don't like seeing animals in captivity and/or harmed in any way. But this is different 😊 Most of the animals are free to come and go and they aren't captive 💜💜💜 I loved it and found out so much about my sister Vicky's favourite lil animal, the Tasmanian Devil 💜💜💜💜Read more
Suzie Holland this is my favourite photo 💜💜💜
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Tessellated Pavement
December 26, 2021 in Australia ⋅ ⛅ 15 °C
Nik and I went to see these magnificent rocks on our last trip to this amazing state. The rock is siltstone and salt deposits left on the rock over millions of years has cracked the stone leaving straight and diagonal lines. Today, different to last time, we had high tide!!Read more
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Bellerive
December 26, 2021 in Australia ⋅ ⛅ 15 °C
This village is just beautiful 💜💜💜 We are in the Greater Hobart Area in the city of Clarence. It was first settled in the 1820's and was known as Kangaroo Point, it became Bellerive in the 1830's, meaning 'beautiful river bank'. Kangaroo Bluff has a point where a British fortress, Kangaroo Battery was built in 1885 and is now a public park.

I had a bit of a walk around the village and took some photographs. I was particularly interested in the old Bellerive Post Office building from 1897 which now houses the Tasmanian Genealogical Society and the Sound Preservation Museum.

Given its maritime history, where boats would travel across the Derwent River, the village has a nautical feel. I love it here and Hobart is my favourite city in Australia.Read more
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Bruny Island Ferry
December 27, 2021 in Australia ⋅ ⛅ 12 °C
What a wonderful day we have had!! Today we visited Bruny Island, the biggest southern most island off Tasmania and 45 mins from Hobart. Tasmania never ceases to amaze me 💜💜💜

We caught the Sealink Bruny Island ferry over and back and explored the island. It was magnificent!!Read more
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Bruny Island Cheese Company
December 27, 2021 in Australia ⋅ ⛅ 12 °C
I could live here!! Easy!!
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Bruny Neck and Truganini Lookout
December 27, 2021 in Australia ⋅ ⛅ 13 °C
This 'neck' is a very narrow isthmus separating north and south Bruny Island. Safe and calm on the right and wild and open on the left. Of course I splashed around in the wild side!

Truganini was born on Bruny Island C 1812 and wrongly believed to be the last 'full' First Nations woman. She was a woman displaced (putting it nicely) by colonisation, being sent to Flinders Island and then onto Oyster Cove and passing away in Hobart in 1876. Truganini had requested for a decent burial from the authorities, asking for her ashes to be scattered in the D'Entrecasteaux Channel, the narrow strip of water separating Bruny Island from the mainland of Tasmania that we traveled through to get to Bruny Island, however this was denied in death. Truganini's skeleton was exhumed by the Royal Society of Tasmania with her skeleton being again disrespected and placed on display.

Truganini's skeleton and her cremation finally happened a century later with her ashes being scattered in the Channel.Read more
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