Tasmania

Before leaving Oz, we really wanted to see more, so we headed to Tasmania for a quick visit.  Tassie is a beautiful, green, laid back island that really deserves more time to explore.  Alas we only had 4 days, but we packed in as much as we could.  Definately the most beautiful part was Cradle Mountain with an ice blue Dove Lake in view, but the rest of Tassie was pretty awesome too, (especially the fact that they serve normal sized coffees!).

After Cradle Mountain we drove to the beautiful Wine Glass Bay.  As we had the little'uns with us, we decided to only hike up as far as the look out ... although that in itself is an hour and a half hike.  Our peanut amazed us all and did the whole hike herself, while the little guy rode in style on daddy's shoulders.  Lucky him!!  

A nice little day trip is a visit to Bruny Island.  It's only accessible via boat (that carries cars too) and takes about 20 mins to get too.  It's a very small island, or technically two islands, North and South, connected by a thin strip of land.  It has a population of 600 but I think that the tourist industry is starting to suffer there.  It is, however, still a beautiful, quiet place to visit.  

I love that Oz has pies like back home in the UK.  Most pies are some form of beef (beef and bacon, beef and onion etc), although I generally have the vegetable one.  Hubby eats the meat ones and I like to have a bite.  I should have been suspicious when he didn't tell me what kind of meat pie he was eating, but I tried it anyway.  Then he flipped over the bag to show me what I was eating .. Wallaby!!!  Oh no!! At least he got me an apple pie too :o)  

Although our time in Tassie was short, we managed to squeeze in a trip to the Salamanca Market in Hobart and a drive up to Mt Washington to admire the views.  On our last day we stopped in at Port Arthur to see where all the convicts were taken, before we headed off to the airport.  Another great trip over :o(