Tasmania

Four seasons in one day here in Tasmania!  It is about the size of Maine.

                                              Arriving at the Hobart Airport

                    Visiting the Bonorong Wildlife Sanctuary - here is a wombat

                                                     Tasmanian Devil

                    Maddy feeding kangaroo at the Sanctuary

           Drove from Hobart To Launceston thru some interesting little towns 

                 

                    Tasmanian National Park Lookout Point

                               Tasmanian Arch

Port Arthur is a village and historic site in southern Tasmania, Australia. Sitting on the Tasman Peninsula, it was a 19th-century penal settlement with a fascinating history of convicts (?) shipped here from England for very minor offenses.  Turned out many learned various trades and became valuable contributors to society.

                             Hiking in the Cataract Gorge in Launceston, Tasmania

                                         

                We visited the Platypus House, best picture I could get of a platypus

                             And an echidna, waddles like a duck and eats ants

                                More beautiful fauna

              Our group wine tasting at the Ghost Block Cellar - all local grown food

                                Ferry from Devonport to Melbourne at the Bass Straits

                             Australian golden wattle tree

      Largest and best calamari Inever had at our welcome dinner in Hobart.

       View of Melbourne from th ANZAC War Memorial