Werona Heritage Bed & Breakfast Launceston
33 Trevallyn Road Launceston, Tasmania, 7250, Australia
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Light trip for the last day!
... only meal for me in a day. Then I filled the gas to spend all my bills. Now I only have a few coins left...
After dinner, I walked to the waterfall nearby. It took almost an hour to get there, farther than expected, but the view is okay. I took the difficult mountain path back to downtown, wandered at the riverside, and then got back.
My roommate is a 'paramedic nurse' (I checked the web for a while to find out the spelling ...
Shaking hands with the devil... Well, sort of.
... vocabulary to convince the zoo-keeper to let it go or something. I guess we'll never know.
Up ahead were one of the zoo's biggest attractions - the famous Tasmanian Devils. Named as such for their scream, these ones seemed rather more docile than I had expected. They seemed content to just relax in the long grass and let the world pass by. Until it was time for their feed. The zookeeper arrived at the enclosures shortly after us and already they knew ...
Aboriginal art, portraits and the story of Pluto
... and which didn't. Turns out the one we showed up at wasn't the one. But we still had plenty of time to look around first.
The museum's main exhibit at that time was a display of aboriginal art and craftwork, along with a silent video presentation about the history of the island state. Full of... footage of roads. So, if I learnt one thing from that video, it's that Tasmania does indeed have a lot of roads. Other things to see included a range of ...
Letting out my inner geek at the Launceston Museum
Like every good nerd the thing that I love most about travel is new museums, and to add extra goodness this one had dinosaurs. Chops let out his inner Uncle and played up with Jen's ...
Beaconsfield
... also had a whole section commemorating the mine rescue - it was really well done.
It wass still raining and windy when we emerged and we took a bit of a drive north to Beauty Point - which might be on a nice day. We were pretty wet and cold from getting in and out of the car so we stopped at a takeaway and got some hot chips - on a dday like this they tasted ...

