(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 […]
Sydney Art Museums (1/23/2018)
On our first day back from the Blue Mountains, we explored some of the local art museums in downtown Sydney. We began at Art Gallery of New South Wales, where we commenced our tour with an Acknowledgement of Country. As visitors in the country, this acknowledgement of the Indigenous people in Australia is an important […]
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 […]