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Christmas Tasmania History Tasmania


After only two weeks of training, here I am on vacation (paid for two tomorrow and more ...).


We fly to Tasmania, an island off the coast of Melbourne. It only takes a short hour flight by plane and arrive the same morning Hobart, the capital. We decide to rent a car, but due to budget, we have the car for a week, we will advise in stop thereafter.

soon as the car in hand, we decide to begin a tour of Tasmania up the coast from the east. At first, Baptiste is not very comfortable with driving on the left and I will be small frights throughout the journey.
We are immediately surprised by the difference in landscape is changing very rapidly km km. First, we are immersed in a kind of African savannah where we would not have been surprised see a giraffe in the distance. Animals that unfortunately we see at the moment, lying on the roadside. It is really impressive and we understand the importance of traffic signs that require drivers to drive at dusk not until the early morning (there are even some areas where it is forbidden to drive at night).

The landscape is really wild and we can very n'appercevons Housing (recess with 6 inhabitants per km2, it is almost like in Estonia!). Then we Longoni the coast and it is impossible not to stop to admire the scenery.


For our first night, we set the tent in the Freycinet National Park . we will find that national parks are very numerous (they cover one third of the territory and 5 of them are part of a World Heritage area by UNESCO). We have to pay us a pass permetra thereafter to walk around and put the tent in all the parks of the island. Indeed, each park is provided free campsites for hikers and nature lovers, some are only accesible after 3 days of walking. Holidays ahead really well ...

We start our first ride on Wine Glass Bay and qques after hours walking we arrive on a white sandy beach inhabited by qques pademelons (kind of small kangaroos) who show their noses without being too scared. This is our first encounter with wildlife on the island who never cease to amaze us in the future.

The animals are wild in Tasmania, we have always seen in their natural place, but they are not very fierce and the region must make awareness campaign so that tourists do not feed the animals so they can remain wild.


We arrive in the Bay of Fire for Christmas, and I can tell you that nothing be the bottom is a real gift. The menu's Eve, a small lobster tasted the orange stones (due to lichens) in front of a turquoise sea .... A real treat! A thud
me waking during the night, Santa Claus?? And no, a kangaroo !!!!!


For my birthday, we came out the bottle of Bordeaux jealously guarded by Baptist acompagnée cheese from the corner (and yes, to my delight, Tasmania is also known for its cheese) at the edge a very refreshing waterfall.

following days are pure wonders and discoveries of Tasmanian nature. This region is truly amazing and we do not come across so many tourists that we are often alone on the roads and campsites receive very little tents. We go on walks to walks on the feet and swallow km cars in breathtaking landscapes.

We begin our tour of Tasmania from the East Coast p uis we plunge into the country where many lakes are a paradise for fishermen warned. We travel sometimes dozens and dozens of miles without encountering any village or any structure whatsoever. Fortunately panels tell us where to tank (meal bonus and fuel) because during the next 90 miles, there will be no store or gas station. It is true that we must not fail, given the innexistence telephone network and the little passage ...


The island is not very big, we réussisons to go around in a week (with 1600 km on the clock, anyway). The West Coast is even more wild, so wild that there are only two villages on the coast with access to the Indian Ocean, the rest of the coast is totally grayed out (unless you have a 4x4). We preview, at our expense, that the roads open only 4x4 are marked on our map of a big white line. Some villages are all served by only those roads or we thought we could go ....

We arrive at Hobart on the following Saturday to make the car and we plan to spend the next week in Bruny Island and Maria Island . But that's another story ....


For those who want a glimpse of our more complete picture, you can click on the link below: 1st week Tassie


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