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Tassie
Located 240km south of Australia, Tasmania is a lovely island state which has a population nearly the size of Malta's but covers an area 200 times bigger!!! You could drive for days and hardly meet anyone apart from sheep and Tasmanian devils.
Due to limited time, we opted to cover the east coast of Tassie (as the locals call it)...driving …
Ritsurin Gardens, School
Today we got on the bus pretty early and drove to Ritsurin Gardens. The gardens were really beautiful, and there were heaps of koi fish in the lakes. The trees were that really pretty orange and green colour. We went into the place where the tea ceremonies are conducted, and drank green tea while kneeling in the floor. We were given a sweet to counter the bitter taste of the tea. I drank almost all of the tea to be ...
St Helen's via Pyengana Dairy and back
After a hearty cooked breakie served at Kurrajong House And a chat with the other occupants we headed off to St Helen's traveling through Scottsdale. We passed through a number of little towns, one of which held some interest fir Chris being Derby (because he worked in Derby in Western Australia), but this Derby is famous for its tin mining and its really very pretty unlike WA's Derby which is a hellhole! We then headed straight to Pyengana ...
Snow! reaching the most southern point by car!
... nice to eat so they were not eaten by any of us and were left on the fire to burn. Dion turned out to be very good company and we sat the afternoon away around the fire and talked about our travels to date and what we hoped to do next. I made a roast chicken with vegetables for dinner and invited Dion to join us but he decided he would use the sausages he had defrosted instead. He stayed until around 5.30pm deciding that he was now hungry after watching us eat our roast dinner. ...
A hole-in-God-knows-how-many, & the Origin of Life
... But I think that in actual fact, my performance was inversely proportional to the confidence I had in my ability to beat each challenge. This theory was definitely supported by "The Volcano" - where the hole was atop a steep 4-sided slope that just looked like it would be a nightmare to properly aim for. Too weak a shot would send the ball rushing back down towards you, and any seemingly reasonable attempt to hit it just hard enough would probably send ...