Welcome to Tasmania! The Lonely Planet already mentioned that Tasmania was mostly, but mistakenly, skipped by most travellers (domestic or international) in their travel itinerary. Well, that made us of course a little bit more curious :-) We decided to book a last minute flight to Tasmania. It was roughly a one hour flight to Hobart, the capital of Tasmania. Most of the area of Tasmania consists of National Parks. It is one of the few places on earth were there is still complete wilderness. Tasmania is a big island underneath Australia and has an area of about 68400 Square km with a population of about 486000. When you make the comparison to the Netherlands, with an area of about 41500 Square km and a population of about 16.5 million, we knew that we would certainly encounter some rugged 'wilderness'.
When we arrived in Hobart, we decided to tackle this island again by car. Sois is becoming a real expert in driving on the left hand side of the road. So you'd better look out when we're back at home... ;-)
The next day we drove to Port Arthur and decided to stop along some major natural attractions on the way.
We stopped also at a Tasmanian Devil Wildlife park along the way. You probably all know the Tasmanian Devil from the Looney Tunes as 'Taz'. If want to see the little guy in reallife, check the next post.
After the interesting encounter with the Tazzie Devils, we continued our journey to the Tasman Peninsula to Port Arthur. The main thing about Port Arthur was that it was Australia's largest penal colony. Port Arthur used to be a destination for the hardest of convicted British criminals. They could not escape because they were too afraid of the shark infested waters on three sides of the peninsula. In addition, they had to pass a highly secured 30m wide pass of land that connected the peninsula to the mainland of Tasmania. However, today it is mainly a tourist attraction which was (according to our opinion) highly overpriced. We had lunch at Port Arthur, but decided to have a look at the site from a look-out point.
On our way back to Hobart (about 2 hour drive), we even drove a little further and went to have a look at Mount Wellington in order to have a stunning view over the city of Hobart... Wow!
The next day we continued on our journey to the Western Wilderness. We decided to stop at Lake St. Clair on the way to go for a little hike. Our hike was relatively short (about an hour), but certainly rewarding because we were able to see an echidna!! Echidna's are the only surviving monotrems, apart from the platypus. They are the only egg-laying mammal (with the platypus as well) and therefore a very special creature. After we stretched our legs a little bit, and met the echidna in the wild, we still had to drive the rest of the day. The drive was beautiful and as we expected... throughout complete wilderness.
Welcome to Tasmania! The Lonely Planet already mentioned that Tasmania was mostly, but mistakenly, skipped by most travellers (domestic or international) in their travel itinerary. Well, that made us of course a little bit more curious :-) We decided to book a last minute flight to Tasmania. It was roughly a one hour flight to Hobart, the capital of Tasmania. Most of the area of Tasmania consists of National Parks. It is one of the few places on earth were there is still complete wilderness. Tasmania is a big island underneath Australia and has an area of about 68400 Square km with a population of about 486000. When you make the comparison to the Netherlands, with an area of about 41500 Square km and a population of about 16.5 million, we knew that we would certainly encounter some rugged 'wilderness'. 
When we arrived in Hobart, we decided to tackle this island again by car. Sois is becoming a real expert in driving on the left hand side of the road. So you'd better look out when we're back at home... ;-) 
The next day we drove to Port Arthur and decided to stop along some major natural attractions on the way. 
We stopped also at a Tasmanian Devil Wildlife park along the way. You probably all know the Tasmanian Devil from the Looney Tunes as 'Taz'. If want to see the little guy in reallife, check the next post. 
After the interesting encounter with the Tazzie Devils, we continued our journey to the Tasman Peninsula to Port Arthur. The main thing about Port Arthur was that it was Australia's largest penal colony. Port Arthur used to be a destination for the hardest of convicted British criminals. They could not escape because they were too afraid of the shark infested waters on three sides of the peninsula. In addition, they had to pass a highly secured 30m wide pass of land that connected the peninsula to the mainland of Tasmania. However, today it is mainly a tourist attraction which was (according to our opinion) highly overpriced. We had lunch at Port Arthur, but decided to have a look at the site from a look-out point. 
On our way back to Hobart (about 2 hour drive), we even drove a little further and went to have a look at Mount Wellington in order to have a stunning view over the city of Hobart... Wow!
The next day we continued on our journey to the Western Wilderness. We decided to stop at Lake St. Clair on the way to go for a little hike. Our hike was relatively short (about an hour), but certainly rewarding because we were able to see an echidna!! Echidna's are the only surviving monotrems, apart from the platypus. They are the only egg-laying mammal (with the platypus as well) and therefore a very special creature. After we stretched our legs a little bit, and met the echidna in the wild, we still had to drive the rest of the day. The drive was beautiful and as we expected... throughout complete wilderness.
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Hallo lieverds zit op de computer bij mams en paps, paps heeft een e-mail naar jullie gestuurd via het hotmail adres. Ben benieuwd of hij is aangekomen. Groetjes en dikke poenen van Mij.
Heyyyy Carnavalisten Alaaffff!!
ici le Coxxx Sportif met weer een onzinnige bijdrage..
Nondejuuu lui geer mot weure genomineerd veur de World Press Photo met al eur picturama's..neet te geleuve wat n sights allemaol!!
Ich schrok mich kepot vaan Mattie zn glasses..nne dragqueen..hehe..steit dich good knappe mins!! pfff
Endin dn eelend is hey al weer bijnao begonnen..Prins Carnaval maak de straoten weer onveilig.
Meh ich vin dat geer es aofgevaardigden vaan de Mestreechter Carnavalsgeis de native inhabitants aoch mot verrassen met n optreije vaan:
'Charissa..de hoor vaan Groet Mestreech'!! Dus Mattie doeg dn bes en lao de luikes ns zien wats te allemaol veur n tricks met n komkommer kins oethoole!!
Ici is alles ruhig in die Hutte..vriedeg en zondeg met luukie en compagnie op stap dus kump good..
Leef luij amusez-vous en doeg de groeten aon Leng leng vaan Gerry Teng he!!
Grz oet n immer mondainer weurdend Moelingen..
Yours sincerely..Le Kenonscoxxx
die foto's had ik nog niet gezien realy amazing groetjes paps
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