Tasmania!

Chocolate House

Port Arthur

Salmon Ponds

The trout!

Luke Rowing

Feeding the Kangaroos at

Wildlife park

At Dad's 70th

Bay of Fires

Maureen, Cooper and Jacinta

Cradle Mountain

Luke's sandcastles

Yesterday we arrived back at the mainland from Tassie! We have had a wonderful time in Tasmania, it is such a beautiful state!! The Spirit of Tasmania was a great treat, we managed to get a room with a port hole and the kids loved looking out the window!

We arrived in Tassie on the 23rd Dec and stayed with my friend Maureen in George Town for a few days! Hi Maureen! It was lovely to catch up! After George Town and Launceston we then travelled east to St Helens, it was such a beautiful drive. We managed to visit the Bay of Fires and the kids had a ball playing in the sand. Hobart was our next stop and we all really enjoyed it here, it is such a pretty city. We stayed at Seven Mile Beach and had a great time sightseeing. After eating too much chocolate at Cadbury's chocolate factory we spent the afternoon at a great park. Also had a day at Port Arthur, it was wonderful to visit, we all enjoyed the history and the old buildings.

Dominic and I actually flew back to Armidale for a very quick trip for my Dad's 70th, it was lovely to be there! Looking forward to a few weeks at Christmas to catch up with friends properly though. While Dom and I were away Benn, Luke and Jacinta went fishing on the Great Lake in central Tassie. They caught a brown trout, so exciting and delicious eating!

Once we were all back together in Hobart we headed for the West, as the roads are very windy it took us most of the day to drive to Cradle Mountain/Lake St Claire National Park. We visited The Salmon Ponds on the way, a great place to see and feed the fish. The weather was rather cold and we also had alot of rain, but such a pretty place on the Lake. We then moved on to Strahan (west coast) going through the mining town of Queenstown. Strahan was a great spot, back on the beach, we stayed for a couple of days. Next stop was Cradle Mountain, while the weather was cold it was great to see it! There are many walks you can do, we really enjoyed a short walk around Dove Lake, just beautiful.

Our last stop in Tassie was Devonport, getting ready for the boat trip the next day. We had a chance to catch up with Maureen and Cooper again! We had a lovely day, the kids played, we went to a chocolate place, House of Anvers, seriously the best hot chocolates ever! Also visited a Cherry place, delicious ice cream all round!

We managed to drive all the way to Griffith from Melbourne, we are having some trouble with the clutch on the truck, just found out it will be a few days to fix! So will be here until Friday at least.