Convict coast

1. Port Arthur Penal colony penetentiary.
2. House at Port Arthur supposedly the most haunted in Tasmania.

3. Nothing between us and Antarctica.
4. 116 steps down and 115? back to see Remarkable Cave.

Sea and shackles

1.  Cataract Gorge in Launceston.
2. Cricket on the beach at our lunch stop in Swansea.
3. We stayed at the Fox and Hounds Port Arthur - not Coxbench.
4.  Richard shackled at Port
Arthur penal colony - unfortunately they didn't lock!

Launceston 2

1.  Me and R in Launceston tram museum.
2. R and friend checking track gauge is OK.
3. R flanked by the tram and the 'fluffy' trees which made me sneeze.
4.  Just loved the effect of these paint drips in the Railway Museum workshops.

Launceston 1

1 Spiders for lunch.  Syrup, lemonade and ice cream. yummy!
2.Flowers and pergola in City Park with our hotel in background/
3. Richard trying out the bean bags in Brisbane St Mall.
4. One Launceston tram with chickens as rescued.

Monotremes

1. Platypus eggs.
2. Spot the platypus.


3. Echidna feeding.
4. Echidna.

North west Tasmania

1. Richard at Marawah Beach.
2. Marawah Beach on a public holiday!
3. Dinner on verandah at Stanley on north coast.
4. Mural on the site of Latrobe station closed in 1982.

The Nut, ferns and sea

1. In Queenstown we walked up to Spion Kopf loookout. As you can see it was very steep.
2. We stopped on the way to Stanley to see a river gorge and on our way found thius wonderful tree fern forest.
3.Richard walking on top of The Nut at Stanley.  Look hard and you can see sea both sides of the land.
4. A view of the strange geological feature The Nut. PS we went up on the cable car!

West Coast Wilderness Railway

This railway was built in the 1890s to serve a copper mine. It was impossible to follow the river so the railway had to climb over the hill using a rack and pinion system. Today it is simply a tourist trip with stops for gold panning, lunch etc.

1.  Panning for gold at Lynchford stop.  Didn't find any, but boy next to me found 2 flakes

2.The state of the art 'heating'.

3. Train at our lunch stop, where we also changed trains to diesel hauled for the downhill run into Strahan.

4. Just loved this place name.  There were 3 explanations of how it came about either involving 2 milk churns, a double barreled shotgun or corruption of  an Aboriginal name - whichever you want to believe!

 

Hobart to Queenstown

1. For Brenda and David - we didn't realise you travelled this far.
2. The Nelson Falls.
3. Iron Blow site of former copper mine.
4. Iron Blow lookout with Richard standing on it.

Hobart

1. Crowds at Salamanca Market which is every Sat am.
2. Fresh local apricots and cherries for sale.
3. Hobart from the top of Mt Wellington.
4. Richard at the top ot Mt Wellington.