Chilling out today, enough said. Oh and heard Scotland got France and Italy in qualifiers..Doh! I walked down to the market square and Salamanca Place where I updated the journal. I then walked back to the hostel and made my own wraps to save money. It's quite cold today with an overcast sky just like a miserable Scottish day. I had gnocchi again this evening, I went up to my dorm and found the girls playing with the hostel cat (who I named Oscar). He...

We got the ferry to Bruny Island today. We drove through the island to Adventure Bay and had lunch. The beach was gorgeous with clear water and white sand. We drove to the Penguin Lookout on the causeway but couldn't see any penguins. We walked up the sand dune to the aboriginal memorail to Truganini (the last Tasmanian Aborigine) we read the information plaque; she had a hard life, her sisters were stolen by whalers, her husband was killed by convicts and her p...

We had breakfast early then headed towards the Cradle Mountain Park. I was driving and the roads were pretty treachorous. The most windy roads I've ever driven. We arrived at Dove Lake and saw the spectacular Cradle Mountain. The only annoying thing is the swarm of huge flys that are everywhere(they look like bees but don't sting). I drove us further south to Queenstown and the lunar landscape that surrounds it. My rough guide says that's because of the mass expl...

We checked out of Irish Murphys and then drove to the mesmerising Cataract Gorge. We walked across the huge suspension bridge which was fun especially as a group of joggers crossed while we were on and we nearly got rocked over!! I saw a wallaby in the bush (alive! I've seen plenty roadkill!) and lots of lizards in the surrounding bush. We then drove to Beauty Point listening to Donna's 3 CDs: 80s music including Sheena Easton, Cold Chisel (Oz band) and Flee...

We got up early and a little bleary-eyed as the Germans in our dorm left at 7am and made some racket! We drove to St Helens, the countryside was outrageously beautiful. However when we reached the Bay of Fires it was amazing. Turqouise waters, white sand and rolling sand dunes. We had a picnic on the rocks which were teeming with crabs, starfish and sand spiders. We drove to Billalong Bay and then on to St Columba's Falls but couldn't walk to it as the path had d...