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Melbourne Cup with the locals
We headed south through some small picturesque towns until we reached Kettering where we and the truck boarded a vehicle ferry. The ferry crossing takes only 25 minutes and runs every half hour.
Once on Bruny Island we travelled south passing the narrow Neck and onto Adventure Bay where we were to board Robert Pennicott's legendary team and yellow boats for the coastal wilderness experience. We were all given waterproof ponchos for this ...
Penguins and Baby Wallabies
... raised from babies as their mothers were killed on the roads. The human workers here have little
pouches that they wear to hold the babies close so the babies can hear their heartbeats and feel their body warmth. We each got to hold Annie, a three week old wallaby.We played in the yard with Zero, a cream colored wallaby, and Nelson, each of whom will be released within the next couple of weeks.
On the way here we had a nine hour layover in ...
What a spectacular Day!
... the ferry first but the traffic attendant wasn't having a bar of that and ensured that everyone disembarked according to HIS order which put us off first!! We didn't mind as we were tourists and had all day to explore the island. Well, car number two sat on our tail, literally, until he found an opportunity to overtake us. We discovered shortly after, that most of the roads on Bruny Island are dirt and we can only think the old ...
Bruny Island Adventure
... seals are just so clumsy on land and in the water they are just the opposite! They swam all around the boat and the cruise even had a submarine underwater camera they put in for us to see the seals swimming under the water – they are very graceful and clever and just glide through the water – curious at times coming up to inspect the camera! The sea was very rough (apparently about 2metre swells and not ...
Port Arthur
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Panorama of the Port Arthur site
In 1927 tourism had grown to the point where the area's name was reverted to Port Arthur. 1916 saw the establishment of the Scenery Preservation Board (SPB) which took the management of Port Arthur out of the hands of the locals. By the 1970s the National ...
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