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    • Traveleraustralia & south east asia
      Day 44

      Hastings caves

      November 16, 2023 in Australia ⋅ ☁️ 9 °C

      Heute ging es mit zwei deutschen(Richard und Tim) die ich gestern Abend kennengelernt habe zu den Hastings caves! Der eine hat ein Auto richtiger Luxus. Wir sind dann dort angekommen in der Höhle hatte es 9 grad brr🥶 es war echt sehr sehr cool dort drin und auch voll interessant! Hat leider $24 gekostet aber war’s Geld echt wert!! Danach hab ich ins neue Hostel eingecheckt 14 betten 🛏️ und zum Abendessen haben wir uns zum hot pot essen verabredet. Das Essen war richtig gut 🤩 aber ich war so voll danach. Der Tag hat echt viel Spaß gemacht. Und 3 Regenbögen hab ich auch gesehen 🤭Read more

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    • TravelerOur time in Tassie
      Day 17

      Huonville

      March 21 in Australia ⋅ ⛅ 18 °C

      Yesterday we made it out of New Norfolk and got to Cambridge Park in Hobart where we returned the van and picked up a car. I felt a lot better at Crusin when they checked over the van and we owned up to the damaged back bumper area and he said "oh, that's nothing" - so all good!
      We had lunch in Cambridge Park at the Grocer cafe we had lunch on the day we arrived.
      We headed across the bridge and made our way to our cottage in an area called Cradoc, which is along the road from Huonville.
      Robyn did some washing - we had lots from being on the road.
      The property is up a lane off the main road and overlooks some paddocks that are drought dry. We are attanded by a little dog named Zoe and she is supposed to keep the Wallabies away, but take a look at the photo I got in the late afternoon less than 10 metres from our backdoor.
      We went to bed last night with no agreed plans and awoke this morning and I was not feeling 100% - so we decided to go for a drive around the Huon Valley. Robyn chauffered me, and it was a nice change.
      Our cottage owner gave the name of a cafe in town that had the best coffee and that was our first stop, and she wasn't wrong - one of the best we've had here. We drove down the western side of the river down to a town called Geeveston, where I spied a wreckers yard and we stopped and I got some photos for 52 Frames challenge for this week. Then we had lunch at a place called Osteria in Franklin - this was an Italian restuarant run by a young Italian couple who have been in Tasmania for about 5 or 6 years. They use all local produce. The lunch was just superb.
      We drove back to Huonville, bought a few groceries and then headed out the eastern side down as far as Cygnet - which looks like an interesting town which we will revisit.
      Tomorrow we will drive into Hobart and visit the Saturday market. The weather for the next 4 or 5 days is for cooler cloudy days.      Read more

    • Traveleraustralia & south east asia
      Day 77

      Huonville/ campingtrip tag 3

      December 19, 2023 in Australia ⋅ 🌙 10 °C

      letzter Tag vom Trip angekommen. Waren alle iwie Sau müde an dem Tag also sind wir bloß nach Huonville gefahren und haben das Wetter genossen. Trip war echt schön, hatten ne gute Zeit! Gegen 16 Uhr waren wir wieder im Hostel weil mussten das Auto um 17 Uhr zurück geben. Abends dann finally the grinch beendet 🥳 nachm Abendessen waren wir dann noch bisschen draußen spazieren und haben dann voll die krasse weihnachtsbeleuchtung gesehen und normalerweise ist hier so gut wie nix dekoriert.Read more

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    • Australia with a WHV
      Day 37

      Destination secrète : Lake Skinner

      March 11, 2023 in Australia ⋅ ☁️ 13 °C

      Tim nous embarque cette fois, Philip et moi, dans une aventure plus que local : “Je vous promets une aventure sans croiser personne, même les locaux ne connaissent pas réellement cet endroit, Elisia n’y est jamais allée, par exemple”. Étant sportif, Tim enjolive toujours la réelle difficulté de l’exercice. Mais pas de soucis, mes jambes et moi sommes prêtes pour faire 6,5 km en 4/5 heures, mes bras sont prêts pour l’escalade.
      Je dramatise un peu, ça faisait un bien fou de retrouver des sensations. Je suis même convaincue que la difficulté de la marche rend le lieu plus beau, plus appréciable. Quand on est arrivés au sommet, il y avait énormément de vent. Tim en était même impressionné, il nous a avoué que c’est la première fois qu’il en voyait autant, alors qu’il vient ici depuis qu’il a dix ans. À tel point que les gouttes qu’on sentait venaient du lac, il ne pleuvait pas. C’était gris mais les nuages sont vite partis. J’ai aussi eu des souvenirs de mes années de gym quand on traversait l’eau en sautant de rocher en rocher, ou en faisant preuve d’équilibre sur une branche, comme je le faisais sur la poutre. Tim m’a fait remarquer que j’avais froid en voyant les frissons sur mes jambes rouges, le vent et l’eau me fouettaient mais j’ai crié pour qu’il entende : “Je sais !” Le sourire aux lèvres. C’était impressionnant, la nature est impressionnante, je l’ai pris comme un rappel de son pouvoir. En discutant après, on s’est tous mis d’accord sur le fait que la météo ne pouvait pas être meilleure, que ça n’aurait pas été aussi bien avec un grand soleil et sans vent, et que la nature est de toute façon plus forte que nous, qu’elle gagnera toujours, quoi qu’il arrive.

      PS : on a croisé cinq personnes, cela fait partie des choses que Tim voit changer depuis 40 ans.      Read more

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    • TravelerWeltreise
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      Day 7

      South Cape Track

      February 12, 2018 in Australia ⋅ ⛅ 14 °C

      Nachdem wir am Samstag den Salamanca Markt besucht haben, fuhren wir am Sonntag in den Süden Tasmaniens. Die letzten Kilometer kamen wir nur langsam vorwärts, da unser Auto nicht wirklich Offroadtauglich ist. Unser kleiner weisser Flitzer hat die Strecke jedoch unbeschadet überstanden - ist halt jetzt mehr braun als weiss😉
      In Cockle Creek starteten wir den South Cape Walk. Bevor es in den Nationalpark ging, mussten wir zuerst durch die Schuhputzstation - ja, richtig gelesen: unsere Schuhe mussten wir reinigen UND desinfizieren - nicht, dass es im Wald noch dreckig wird :-)

      Danach durchquerten wir Wälder und Felder. Mittendrin hatte man nicht das Gefühl, dass man jemals wieder raus findet.
      Schon lange hörten wir das Meer rauschen und nach 2 Stunden sahen wir es dann auch endlich. Da es auf dem Felsen oben so stürmte, gingen wir gleich ans Meer runter und genossen unseren Lunch. Wir verweilten nicht lange am Meer, da es bei Wind und einer Temperatur von 12 Grad recht kühl war - und dies am südlichsten Punkt Australiens...🤔

      Da wir noch nicht genug gelaufen sind, gingen wir mit unserer Zimmernachbarin noch schnell in die Stadt und besuchten ein kleines Fest mit Feuerwerk. Nach über 30'000 Schritten konnten wir endlich ins Bett.      Read more

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    • TravelerTasmanien 2016 bis 2017
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      Day 68

      South Cape Rivulet Camp

      January 16, 2017 in Australia ⋅ ☀️ 15 °C

      Der Campingplatz am South Cape Rivulet ist ein echter Traum. Von Bäumen geschützt, direkt an einer Süßwasserlagune gelegen und riesigem Sandstrand am Meer. Man ist aber hier nicht wirklich alleine😀

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    • TravelerMy Time in Down Under
      Day 14

      Bruny Island - Windy Lights

      May 27, 2023 in Australia ⋅ 🌬 14 °C

      After filling our tummies, we drove further south to Cape Bruny Lighthouse which isn't in use anymore but for history reasons. We went all the way up to the top and had an amazing view. We actually learned that lots of lighthouse keepers got very sick because of the metal they used back in the day. It's called the Mad-Hatters-Disease and made these people literally go crazy. Horrible!
      Anyway, we had lunch at the Bruny Hotel where I used my included drunk to get one of the famous Apple Cherry Ciders. It had 8%, and hell, I felt that! I'm not used to alcohol at all and it made me really tipsy. Shandy (basically Radler) is what I usually drink when I want something alcoholic, but that doesn't go over 5%. So it was really tough on me.
      I couldn't really relax and wait for the alcohol to wear off, as we went to a chocolate tasting directly after that. Luckily, it was only three different flavors and everyone was done after 5min, so we went back to the coach.
      We drove back to the hotel and for the first time in this trip, we got a bit time to spend for ourselves in which we didn't only have time to hop under the shower and get ready for dinner.
      So Lana and I decided to explore Hobarts city centre a bit. I actually found a quite nice magnet for my Mom to bring home and so I was happy. However, the city centre was nearly deserted. At 5pm... No wonder people don't go out and about anymore - if nothing is open, why the hassle?
      So we were basically just wandering around, trying to find our way back to the hotel. We finally managed to and had some time to rest our feet.
      Then we went straight to the Crowne Plaza hotel to have a site inspection (very fancy place, not really for our usual STA Travel client) and dinner. The bread and entree were very good but they really butchered it with the main. For me as a vegetarian it was really just Spaghetti with tomato sauce. And don't get me wrong: I like that, it's completely fine as a dish. But I hate when someone tries to make it seem fancy, but it really isn't. And the meatlovers dish wasn't better: It was a naked chicken leg with brown mushrooms and three frozen peas on it. It looked really poor. Nothing like we had the last couple of nights. Dessert was good again though. So, tough crowd, I reckon.
      Tomorrow I could finally have a bit of a sleep in, as Lana and I would be in Group 2, officially starting our day at 9.10am. That means, I can sleep until 8am. Lucky me!      Read more

    • TravelerWorld tour
      Day 386

      South West Tasmania 🪱

      March 13, 2023 in Australia ⋅ ☁️ 12 °C

      Went on a day trip to see glowing worms with Sara, Till and Beaunoit. Got into the cave very unprepared and, me, as always thinking that I can and know more than I do, decided to go further where you needed an "experienced leader". Went through reallyreally narrow holes (Till, big german guy, couldn't even make it and Sara thought she was getting stuck). It was so fun to get into this adventurous cave, but we didn't feel brave enough to go too far. On the way back we realised that the glowing warms where in the entrance cause you needed some water to see them, and afterwards tried to sneak in some termal springs (failed) and went for a short trek around a lake trying to hunt for Platypus.
      📍Essentials: mystery creek      Read more

    • TravelerWeltreise - Australien
      Day 1,797

      Hobart

      March 5 in Australia ⋅ ☁️ 18 °C

      The last days in Tasmania we spent in Hobart and surroundings. We visited Mt Wellington, had good food and drove all the way to the Hastings Caves. As always we had a great time in Tasmania and hopefully we will be back soon.

      Die letzten Tage haben wir in Hobart verbracht. Es ist ein kleines Städtchen mit guten Restaurants und netten Hotels. Die Stadt liegt am Fuß von Mount Wellington und ist natürlich ein Pflichtbesuch für uns. Zum Glück kann man hoch fahren und muss nicht laufen. Außerdem ging es für uns noch in die Hastings Caves. Wie immer war Tasmanien eine Reise wert und hoffentlich können wir bald mal wieder vorbei schauen.      Read more

    • TravelerWorld tour
      Day 416

      Hartz

      April 12, 2023 in Australia ⋅ ☁️ 12 °C

      Short day trip to Hartz for a day hike with Loic, Romina and Mateo. Day started with a nice coffee and some good music in the car. Hike was nice, as always with good company everything is prettier. We came back and had some apple pie at willy smith cidery, and went quickly back to work for my night shift.Read more

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