Tassie Devil Day 2 We started the day in the town of Strahan, where the steam train that runs along the west coast wilderness railway was sat at the station waiting to go on one of its trips. We had an hour to kill so we wandered around the town and then had a drink in a little cafe. From there we moved on to Ocean beach and stood on the west coast of Tasmania - it was quite windy and overcast so it was a lot like being on a beach at home. Apparently if you sail...

Tassie Devil Day 1 - Hobart to Strahan We started our Tassie Devil tour early this morning (picked up at 6.30 am!!) or as we were soon to find out, our 'Taste of Tasmania' tour, as it was actually called! We were in a group of 21 people, from all over the world including Japan, France, Germany, Holland, Italy and one girl who was half German, half Scottish! on the way to the first stop i was sat next to a japanese girl who kept falling asleep on my shoulder - an...

We arrived in Tasmania this morning, and the taxi driver we had from the airport was a mad man! He was polish and kept going on about how his number plate had MP in it which stands for Minister of Parliament etc. We decided it stood for Mad Pole! He was chatting to us on the way and seemed appalled that we didn't know that a prince from Denmark married a Tasmanian, and was interrogating us about boats and stuff. Then, when we mentioned we were going to look for f...