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Launceston Slideshow
Launceston
Travel Blogs from Launceston, Australia
We're off!
Just a short entry to say we're now heading off! Have our passports, rail passes, Yen, suitcases packed... I hope that's it! Haha oh, too bad if not... Will update again when I'm ...
Launceston, last stop in Tasmania
We got into Launceston quite late in the day after our epic day walking in Cradle Mountain, and brought some rain with us.... Today we walked the cataract gorge - I could have done a good audition for the part of the tin man from The Wizard of Oz as I ...
Off we go in our little Suziki Swft?
... is also within walking distance of the city centre and the docks, It is like being in a seaside town in England. From Launceston we traveled to Grindlewald a swiss style village and to the Platypus house, where you can see very lucky platypus and ...
BBBRRRRRrrrrrrrrr
... .. (yes already!!!)... so i only had enough money to go to tasmania (unlike somewhere hotter!) and just for the week... i was in launceston for a few days before heading to Hobart... met up with a few new friends who turned out to be people i already met ...
Tasmania - I'm on my way...
... 2er-Sessellift von der einen Seite zur anderen. Ich glaube dort hinten, wäre ich öfters anzutreffen, wenn ich in Launceston wohnen würde. Ich wollte nicht den gleichen Weg zurücklaufen und lief deshalb auf der anderen Seite auf ...
NSW game and Theme Night!
Hey guys We had a bit of a disappointing loss yesterday against NSW 3-0 but on a positive note our team performance was an improvement on the Victoria game. Our second consecutive loss put us in 5th position for the playoffs in the next two days. We ...
Map of Tasmania (dirty minded...yeah you!)
... God Damn Seats don't recline. Assholes. Anyway we stopped over at Melbourne airport and went to the lounge for breakfast and landed in Launceston about half an hour later. We were met by Randall and Eva (Donna's uncle and cousin) and took a drive to ...
Tasmania...
... , Tony and I) visited Seahorse World, Platypus World and other places in between (see photos). We spent two days in Launceston and then moved to Hobart for two days before having one last day back in Launceston. We all agreed that Launceston ...
Farewell...to my Roaddog and Tasmania.
I can't believe 5 1/2 months have come and gone and that im 'on the road again'...it feels like a dream almost that im gone. My time in Tasmania is over as well as my time with my Rd. It's all very sad at the moment, as it's all very ...
Lovely Launceston
We have made our way to Launceston, Tasmania on Tuesday. We left Hobart in the morning and made our way up the east coast. It was a great day and we had the chance to see a lot of the Tasmanian landscape. It took us about 4 hours to make the trek. ...
A hole-in-God-knows-how-many, & the Origin of Life
... to kill, so we decided to head to the City Park for a while and late check out the other show at the Launceston Planetarium - The Origins of Life. This was again a very interesting but hilariously low-tech animated movie which explored ideas such ...
Beaconsfield
We woke up to pouring rain and terry was again out digging trenches and drains to clear the puddles in the annexe area. We stayed indoors for the morning but after lunch the rain eased somewhat so we took a drive about half and hour north to Beaconsfield ...
Cataract Gorge
... and sunny day and we took advantage of it. We started out in City Park, a park full of nice gardens in the centre of Launceston that also has an enclosure with troop of Japanese monkeys living there. The kids thought this was great. Next we ehaded to ...
Alternative Australia Day
... sign that it was the nation's celebrated public holiday - except that is for the fact that it turned into a ghost town! This said, Launceston, or "Lonnie" to the locals, is a nice town, not in the average sense but in that it is homely, welcoming and ...
The start of a great journey
Well only 3 more days to go before I set off on my big adventure! Now all that's left to do is fit everything in the suitcase!!! I love packing ...
Another night in the car...
... be one of the cutest animals in the world. They look like teddy bears!!! Their poo is cubic. We then drove back to Launceston, where we landed initially, to catch the flight back to the mainland. What a coincidence, we bumped into Tracey again at the ...
