We stayed in Hobart again but took a daytrip to Bruny Island to go on a jet boat around the south east coast. After getting there without hitting anything but seeing loads of roadkill, poor darlings, we wrapped up against the elements and climbed on board our 300 horse power boat (-I've no idea what that really means but the boys were impressed). We were expertly "driven" around the beautiful coast line, the highlights where the blowhole (very blowy...

Our aim was to visit the historical site Port Arthur, so we rented a little "cabin" on White Beach....and had the whole beach to ourselves. It was quite spectacular but far too cold to swim. After checking in, we booked ourselves onto the Ghost Tour at Port Arthur, 10 minutes away. We duly turned up and spent the evening being guided around the spooky church, asylum and surgeons house. Didn't see any ghosts but it was quite eerie all the same. We we...

Our trip from Hobart was pretty uneventfull. We dumped all our stuff in our room and set off to Bicheno and the wildlife park. We were greeted by the local press. "They can't be here to see us can they ?" said Jo, unfortunately not, they were here because the bush fires were getting close and they were worried about all the animals. The park was great. I finally managed to see a Tasmanian Devil, not just 1 but 13 of the litle devils !!! Jo got to ho...

We finally made it to Tasmania after a bit of confusion with the flight. They merged our flight with a later one and unfortunately forgot to tell us. This delayed us an hour and then that plane got delayed a further hour, so we didn't arrive in Tassie until 12.25am. We were worried that our car hire place would be closed, but luckily for us (not so for the girl putting 2 hours of overtime) it was there waiting. As we late getting to our accommadation we decid...