When I was about 19 or 20 years old I used to get a rock climbing magazine called High. I can still see the picture on one of the front covers in about 1995 of a sea stack called the totem pole. I was so amazed by it I always hoped I'd see it one day. Today was nearly this day!Having had a lazy morning and leisurely brekkie after a cold night (sleeping bag zipped up all the way!) I chatted to the rangers about walking and red and black spiders. I learnt that...

A rude awakening by my noisy neighbours at 5.30 was unnecessary to say the least. I dozed until sunrise when I took some photos of Maria Island, the location for today's adventures. Maria (pronounced as in Mariah Carey not Maria from the Sound of Music) Island was named after Van Diemen's wife and is now a national park and wildlife haven. Having driven to Triabunna I boarded the Maria Island Ferry complete with comedy captain who managed to get a Costa C...

Having had such a terrible nights sleep I happily packed up my tent and said goodbye to my temporary neighbours, the lovely Jill and Ken from Melbourne. I set off south into Glamorgan Spring Bay. As I drove over the Wye River there were two signs. The first said, 'WYE RIVER' and the second, 'Coz it's bigger than a creek'. It took me a while...!On arrival in Swansea I headed straight for the info centre to book some accommodation for tonight. I...

Freycinet National Park is a peninsula south of Bicheno. It's main site is Wineglass Bay and is one of the top 'must-sees' in Tassie. Keen to avoid the hoards, I had walked up the 800 steps to the look out by 9am. I stopped for some pics and chat with two couples, who both agreed that although it was beautiful they preferred the bay of fires beaches, me too! I walked down a very steep path to the beach itself with squeaky white sands and clear blue wa...

Having packed up my tent and enjoyed another scrummy camp brekkie I told a last walk along exfoliation beach to get some photos of the lagoon in better light conditions. As I was walking along I saw a seabird flying along the shoreline. I also noticed a fishing line running out from the beach and I said out loud to the bird, 'stay low, stay low'. Well, the bird didn't hear me. He got caught in the fishing line and was quickly being tumbled in the cra...