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Tasmania With Jens And Si
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After the festival and kipping in the car park at Cooees for free and sneaking in for free showers and food booked the tickets for the ferry to Tassie.Filled up Jens' beast with petrol as didnt think the scooby van would make it round the hills of Tassie and headed off at 8pm for the ferry.
Got told we couldnt take the jerry cans full of fuel so had to do a quick U-ee and leave them with me van outside Justs flat and then crashed down on the floor of the big cabin "Spirit Of Tasmania" for the 10hour crossing to Devonport with a few Boags beers to get us in the spirit for Taz.Moored up at the port and filled our faces with an all you can eat brekkie before headin off to Launceston.
First stop of the trip the Boags Brewery where the beers brewed but after seein the price for the tour decided to get some beers from the shop and drink them outside instead!Headed on to the east coast and stopped the first night at Skeleton bay near bilalong and the Bay of Fires.Spearmint coloured water,green grass and cool surf and had the first meal on a free bbq with a massive whale bone hanging over the top of us but watched the sun down over the surf while eating-not bad!
Crashed the night in a no camping spot with me and Si in the tent that came with my van and Jens in the back of the jackaroo but got bitten to death by the biggest mossies Ive ever seen,even biting you through jeans!Got up next day and started the drive down past Swansea,stopped at Norms lookout to see the tallest falls in Oz and eventually made it down to Wineglass bay where parked the car to walk the 2 1/2 hours to the look out and beach.
Supposed to be one of top 10beaches in the world and after sweating our arses off realised why it was-so difficult to get to so pretty unspoilt!Made it to the beach which was awesome and I spotted a stingray but had gone by time Si got me the snorkel!
Then got pelted by 3 sets of the biggest waves right out of nowhere and then stopped to photo a wallaby just bouncing round the beach before moving on down to Port Arthur.Jens wanted to do a Ghost tour as it was a penal colony and so signed up,got together in a group and the guide is looking for 3 people to hold the lanters while we walk round the castles n stuff,last one left is the one who goes out front and has to walk into the empty places on their own to check its ok,guess who gets collared!!!
Giving us all these tales and how this place is 3rd most haunted in Oz,then says yeah go on Ryan go on ahead up the garden path to the rectory and stand in front room on your own for 5then call us in-then down a dungeon where they used to do autopsies!triffic.
Passed through Hobart after wandering round the Salamancer markets quite a small city and then onto the Cascade brewery for a few pints in the cellar bar before picking up a slab and heading up to Cradle Mountain and Lake St Clair.Walked around Lake St Clair and the walks through the national park real nice like the Lake District back home before driving till late before jumping off in a field to park.
Finished trip at Cradle Mountain,named cos it has a dip in the mountain with the shape of a baby lying in it before heading to what wed mainly come for,
a Tazzie devil sanctuary where they brought one out like a baby telling us how their in danger from extinction from a disease thats wiping them out and went out back where 2 of them were hunting for the road kill the bloke had hidden and pair of them getting Aggro Steve and making the gnarling noises,
quality animals! Back for the ferry back to Melbourne with all of us really stoked as not many people bother heading to Tassie,full of green hills like Wales and stunning beaches.
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