• Tasmania- Tasman peninsula

    December 5, 2025 in Australia ⋅ ⛅ 14 °C

    Tasmania is a small
    Island of the coast of Australia: right? We're only visiting one small part of it: right? So why does it take hours to drive from one bit to another? Hmm...
    Our crack of dawn start transpired into an 11 o'clock start for our hike. Fortunately the vagaries of the Tasmanian weather means that overwhelming 32deg storm force winds one day is breezy and cool 18 deg the next day..
    Cape Huay and views of the iconic Totem Pole sufficed today. We followed this with a visit to Port Arthur - another impressive Victorian era convict site and then some weird "tessellated pavements" before back to "Adrift" at "Flotsam and Jetsam" and some R &R . Well, an hour or so....
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