We came to Tasmania for the hiking, the food and the wine. Today we found all three. We had been looking forward to our hike to Wine Glass Bay for a long time. We were a touch disappointed when we woke up this morning to high winds and overcast skies but decided we were going to make the best of it and ventured out to the park. Freycinet National Park occupies a large part of the Freycinet Peninsula, named after the French navigator Louis de Freycinet. He circu...

Today we drove 200 kilometers northeast from Hobart to Coles Bay. This is where the Freycinet National Park is. We are going to hike to the famous Wine Glass Bay Tomorrow. Today it is cold and windy and we have even encountered some trees that are turning gold and red. We followed a scenic route named The Convict Trail. We stopped at a small roadside botanical park. There were good examples of most of the Tasmanian vegetation. Apparently it is very dry here. Th...