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Tasmania 2019

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    July 21, 2019
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    Setting Sail!

    July 21, 2019 in Australia ⋅ ⛅ 14 °C

    What a fun, windy, long, exciting day! It was so sunny and nice. We parked our car next to the pet cages, and the dogs were crying to be locked up. At least they were going on holidays...

    Luckily the water was really smooth and the boat didn't rock much, so we could stay all the way up the top on level 10! Sam made friends in the PlayStation area and Ruby loved going out on the deck. It was amazing but we got sprayed with water from the Bass Strait even up that high! No dolphins or whales to see, but we saw some big jellyfish!

    We got to see Aladdin at the cinema on the ship, and it felt funny to be rocking a bit as we watched! We laughed heaps.    Read more

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    Launceston, lunch, and lovely friends

    July 22, 2019 in Australia ⋅ ☁️ 13 °C

    A beautiful drive through green countryside with heaps of sheep and cows took us to Launceston. Our friends Lyndell, Isla, Amelie and Will moved to Tassie a few years ago and it was great to have lunch with them.

    It was windy! On the way back to the motel we went back to a chocolate factory we visited last time we were here. Still delicious!    Read more

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    Ulverstone

    July 22, 2019 in Australia ⋅ ⛅ 13 °C

    Our motel is nice enough but not very exciting, especially as the pool is closed for winter. Ruby is devastated! But it's a cute historical town to explore and we are near the (freezing) beach on Bass Strait. The fish and chips are good! The main thing for Sam is the good WiFi!Read more

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    A beautiful place for brunch.

    July 23, 2019 in Australia ⋅ 🌧 7 °C

    We all agreed we found an awesome place for brunch. The Tasmania Food and Wine Conservatory was very cool, a nice old building with heaps of plants, yummy things, chickens and an old bus in the garden. We want to go back!Read more

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    Hexagonal Holiday House

    July 23, 2019 in Australia ⋅ 🌧 6 °C

    When we were arriving Sam said this house is a hexagonal prism with a hexagon-based pyramid for the roof. Of course! We love this house and it was totally worth the drive through the rain.

    We can see mountains but they are misty. Snow will come tonight we hope.Read more

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    A cold rainforest

    July 24, 2019 in Australia ⋅ ⛅ 5 °C

    After a drive when mum embarrassed us by shouting MOO to all the cows we saw, we walked through a beautiful ferny creek path towards some amazing caves.

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    Caves and glow worms

    July 24, 2019 in Australia ⋅ 🌧 5 °C

    The limestone caves at Mole Creek were warmer than the outside world! We reminded ourselves about stalacmites and stalactites. Thankfully for mum we didn't see cave spiders. It's been too rainy. We did see glow worms in the last cave- they're not worms, sort of mosquito larvae. We weren't allowed to take photos of them, but we can tell you they looked like a starry sky.Read more

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    Finally some snow!

    July 24, 2019 in Australia ⋅ ☁️ 5 °C

    On the way back from the caves to our holiday house we wanted to do a scenic lake walk but as you can see it was impossible! A lot more snow than we expected, on the mountain behind our house. Ruby was so excited and it was zero degrees! She said the brown rocks with snow on top looked like frosted cakes.. we were in cakeland! Dad was a brave driver in the ice.Read more

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    Wombats and Devils

    July 25, 2019 in Australia ⋅ ☁️ 11 °C

    Well we learned so much at Trowunna Wildlife Park and got to interact with the animals more than we expected. The wombat was having so much fun with us all. She was tough and showed us her survival skills. It's a really good place rescuing the animals an getting them ready to go back to the wild.

    The little tasmanian devil was so friendly and sweet and had 2 babies in her pouch. We could see them hanging out. The keeper loved her and had taken her to his home, on his couch with his kids. We didn't know how sociable the devil's could be, as other places said they were aggressive. We got to pat them!

    We also loved the quolls which are carnivorous marsupials. Cute but fierce! They seemed to be playing with the local kangaroos.    Read more

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    Salmon farm and holiday relaxing.

    July 25, 2019 in Australia ⋅ ☁️ 11 °C

    Feeding salmon was amazing! They are jumpy. We saw salmon eggs and baby fish. A bit hard to photograph. Mum and dad liked the tastings... We left it to them! The salmon were pink and spotty. There was a waterfall, wetlands and a highlight was having a chicken follow us!Read more

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    Cradle Mountain!

    July 26, 2019 in Australia ⋅ 🌧 4 °C

    So amazing. We drove up through forests that kept changing, and had a shuttle bus ride in the national park. What a great idea, if so many people wanted to drive in and out it would be awful for the national park. We got to walk around a lake and see a historic boat shed.Read more

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    Hobart!

    July 27, 2019 in Australia ⋅ ⛅ 6 °C

    Our apartment is in a historic part of the city, so beautiful. We can walk to everywhere.

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    Markets....

    July 27, 2019 in Australia ⋅ ⛅ 8 °C

    Mum was so happy we went to the Salamanca markets. We saw and tasted and tried lots of things. There are some interesting artistic people. We got some yummy food for dinner.

    We saw a cute parking area for dogs! They're not allowed in the market here, it's too crowded.Read more

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    The weird and wonderful- MONA part 2

    July 28, 2019 in Australia ⋅ ⛅ 9 °C

    We all got to go on a trampoline outside MONA, the Museum of Old and New Art. We felt like we were flying above Tasmania, up high. The art was like nothing we've seen before, and we didn't understand it all.

    The white wooden house was brought from China to Hobart, and clipped together without nails. Sam was interested in the schematic for AI and data mining...we learned a lot.    Read more

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    MONA part 3

    July 28, 2019 in Australia ⋅ ⛅ 11 °C

    We loved the silver grotto. And on our devices we carrired around, it matched with cool music and information. Then, the boat trip back wasn't as freezing!

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    Bye, Hobart!

    July 28, 2019 in Australia ⋅ ⛅ 9 °C

    It was a lovely place to stay in Battery Point. We could walk everywhere. It was interesting that this was supposed to be a good defense place for Hobart, but the governors kept building the wrong weapons in the wrong places, so it was good they never got attacked.Read more

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    It snowed on us! Plus, a cool Wall.

    July 29, 2019 in Australia ⋅ 🌧 4 °C

    Today we drove a lot and saw a lot of different landscapes. We stopped at Derwent Bridge, a tiny village in the highlands. Lunch at the hotel was fantastic, they gave us a heater at our table and blankets! Mum and Dad loved the Sri Lankan curries too.

    While we were there it started snowing. Exciting! It was only light so the snowflakes melted when they touched anything.

    Then, we went to The Wall in the Wilderness. It was an incredible gallery where one man with a chisel and ladder is working on a huge mural made of Huon pine. It is many many metres long and tells stories about the environment and the hard lives of workers over time. Really it was beautiful and so clever. We couldn't believe the sculptures with details of clothing and skin we're all chiseled out of wood.

    Huon pine is special and rare, the trees are endangered so we can't cut them down and artists can only salvage wood from naturally fallen trees. So this huge mural was very valuable and incredible. We weren't allowed to take photos so bought some postcards to show you.    Read more

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    Coming to Strahan!

    July 29, 2019 in Australia ⋅ 🌧 5 °C

    Tasmania is so interesting and beautiful. Everywhere we looked was different, sometimes rainforest, or rocky, or farmland, or snowy mountains, or pretty rivers. We saw pipes from the hydroelectric industry making electricity out of flowing water! We saw the scarred land from logging... And big trucks carrying wood. At least they are good at planting and regenerating the forests.

    Our cabin in Strahan is huge and comfortable but unfortunately has no WiFi due to NBN transitions... Hopefully we will cope!    Read more

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    Beachcombing

    July 30, 2019 in Australia ⋅ ☁️ 9 °C

    The Strahan ocean beach was not like the beaches we usually go to. It was cold, flat, and had so many interesting rocks and treasures to find. The sand was all marbled with contrasting colours.

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    Exploring Strahan

    July 30, 2019 in Australia ⋅ ☁️ 9 °C

    Strahan is small and pretty. The houses look historic and there are streams, forests, fishing in the bay, and ducks trying to get crumbs outside the bakery.

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    Train, river and rainforest

    July 31, 2019 in Australia ⋅ ⛅ 6 °C

    What a great day we had today on a historic train trip! There is a rack and pinion track through the forest, along the river, up and down hills. It was built over 100 years ago, all by hand, by people who camped in the rain for months, to carry things to and from a copper mine. It was a very hard life for the men and families trying to make a life back then in the wilderness.

    The river is a dead river, nothing lives in it because of the industrial waste from the mine. Locals and scientists are working to repair the river system now and we did see some birds which is good for the future.

    The train track has a cog structure in the middle so the train can grip and go up hills even if it's slow. It was also amazing to think about how the engineers and workers built the bridges as well as all the tracks through the rocks and forests.

    We thought Grandpa Geoff would have loved this train trip! It was a Christmas in July themed trip, with holly in the carriages and christmassy food.    Read more

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