WOW! Feb 12 was an adventure. It all started the day before (Feb 11) when Sierra and I chatted with our hostel receptionist about potential travel plans for the day. The receptionist, later to become our new friend, Laurence, suggested that he could show us around some natural sea cliffs near Port Arthur, Tas. We […]
Hangin in Hobart
(2/11/18) After a jam-packed week and a half in Tasmania exploring the island of Maria and the national park in Maydena, we had our first free day in Hobart. I think I speak for us all when I say that we all took advantage of the morning to sleep in and recover from the fast […]
Ready for TasMANIA! (2/1/2018)
After three amazing weeks of exploring Sydney, we were ready to begin a new adventure. On the first day of February, we flew to Hobart – a city located on the biggest Australian island, Tasmania. Right after we landed, we took a bus, and then a ferry, to get to a much smaller island […]
A Day in the Alpine 2/6/2018
Today (February 6) we went on a 10-hour (about 10.5 miles) hike through the Tasmanian alpine at Mount Field to learn about various plants found in that ecosystem. On our hike, we saw beautiful natural pools and lakes carved out by glaciers thousands of years ago, obscure looking conifers, and dolerite boulder fields. We learned […]
The ghosts of convicts probably haunt us now
A day after we went on a tour exploring the Aboriginal history of Sydney, we went to see a piece of the other side: the Hyde Park Barracks. Now a museum, the Hyde Park Barracks were originally a convict-designed and convict-built housing construction. Regardless of its past, I can safely say that we were all […]