Peppers Seaport Launceston

... in a forest where all the trees were taller than me, that tree sure was big! I can't remember the dimensions now, but merely standing next to it and looking up helped to understand its incredible mass. Even then I don't think I could fully comprehend it.<br><br>It was still only mid afternoon, but it'd been a big day, plus I was worried about Erin getting tired having driven all day; so we drove through to Launceston, passing through more towns with old churches and Boags, not ...

... our Airbus A320 and settled in for a relatively incident free flight of about 2 and a half hours. The young couple in front of us were from Mackay and were headed to the Aussie Rules match between Hawthorn and North Melbourne today. This was their first trip out of Queensland. They weren't too happy as we approached and the rain could be seen clearly out the window. I have never seen so much water lying about the place, and for once Tasmania was the bright green that ...

Well we were on the plane all night. Virgin Blue is seriously just a flying bus. Matt managed to sleep most of the way and Donna's head bobbed up and down all night because the *******n Seats don't recline. *******s. 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 their little shop in ...

Drove up the East coast through Bicheno and stopped at Douglas Aspley National Park for a short walk and another stamp in our Tasmanian National Parks booklet! Continued up the coast and turned inland to go up through the mountains to surprise surprise the Mt Elephant Pancake House where it just happened to be lunchtime. No elephants but mountain allegedly shaped like one...but we couldn't see it anyway....fantastic ...

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 will be playing NT tomorrow at 9am and then on Saturday we will play the winner of ...

... of the Dazzler, before heading back to the Empire. Having promised they'd still be open, we were rather surprised to find the Empire closed upon returning. Having seen another pub just up the road, aptly-titled the British Hotel, we made our way there. Meeting the proprieters - the Fergusons - we were royally entertained until late in the night by some very interesting locals. One bloke telling us he'd interviewed for a job in the ...

... used to be: peace and quiet! We got a lot of shopping done, enough to last us for the week, then I went to walk round the gorge again (same one as last time), while Thom made brownies - what a guy! Before that we went for a chinese takeaway in town, which was actually a bit disappointing, but as we were having cravings. (Yes, cravings, not John Cravings, we're not talking Newsround here, but food cravings) we decided to go for it! This evening we chilled with a guy from London, who's ...

... hatte schon eher zugemacht, da ne halbe Stunde Stromausfall war... Naja, haben dann abends noch nen netten Pub gefunden, wo wir Pool gespielt und Bier getrunken haben. Danach ging's zurueck ins Hostel, wo wir noch Karten gespielt und rumgealbert haben. Matthew kam auf die glorreiche Idee, mitten in der Nacht noch Wuerstchen zu braten, hat aber leider den Kaese unter der Pfanne uebersehen, so dass eine riesige Rauchwolke entstand und der Feueralarm losgegangen ist ...

... lunch proved to be very tricky. The rain had stopped, and the sun was even making brief appearances, so we were looking for somewhere to sit outside (preferably covered in case the rain started up again). But there wasn't even a parking area at the side of the road. Finally we arrived in Derby, and spotted picnic tables down by the river. There was even a shelter (with oat table) where we made our sandwiches (but unfortunately had to ...