Well i flown to tasmania from melbourne and the flight was only 1 hour so that was nice to start the journey. Got to hobart about 3pm and headed to the hostel it wasn't very nice and i spent my night there having people talking outside my window until 3am not funny when i had to get up at 5.45am to start the tour. never mind doing tour you don't get much sleep anyway.

Day 1 - Our tour guide was called bruce a local who had been tour guiding for 4-5 years so i expected his knowledge to be good and it was. We let hobart for russell falls about 1-2 hours outside hobart. There we did a walk along the tall trees and viewed the waterfall (russell falls) it was really nice and the screnary was amazing. Bruce was telling us about how tasmania was formed back in the day and about the inhabitants before white man got to tasmania. After lunch we headed to queenstown we just passed through on the way to strahan as it was an old mining town and had about 120 people who lived there so we stopped at the bottle shop and left. At strahan we stayed in our own house over looking the harbour there. It was really pretty and we watched the sunset and had a few drinks to start the tour off.

Day 2 - We had time in the morning to look around strahan before we left so a group of us walked round the harbour and looked at the gift shop and had coffee. After we headed to the henty sand dunes, here we had the opportunity to go quad biking over the dunes, so i decided to do it and it was amazing (another first) the views were great and the quad biking was really fun, especially when two of the girls i was following got stuck up a hill lucky the guide came back and helped them or it would have been a long walk back. We had lunch at the dunes then travelled to montenza falls here we did a 9km walk to see a 400km water fall it was great. Just before the waterfall was an old mine which we could enter but on the way in there were massive spiders there as big as my hand and we also saw the nest (ckeck out the photos). That evening we stayed just outside rosebury at tullah lake. Again the views over the lake were amazing especially sunset and the reflection of the mountains on the lake.

Day 3 - Today was going to be a busy day, most of the group went kayaking on the lake but i was too hungover for that so i had a lay in. After we headed to cradle mountain one of the main attractions of tasmania and great for hiking. When we arrived the weather was too bad for the long walk to the top of cradle mountain but there was enough other ways to be done. We walked to hanson peak this took about 3 hours including a stop for lunch, we got really got views of cradle mountain going up and when we finished. Lucky there was no snow on the mountain as there had been snow only 10 days before we were there. We stayed at devonport that evening again in our own house which had a pool table but we just had stories from bruce about events in tasmania over the years.

Day 4 - today the weather was crap it rained most of the day by it was a long journey day so we really didn't mind. We started in launceston, here we collected 3 new poeple for the east coast part of the tour. We were travelling to bicheno and on the way we stopped at legerwood. The was an anzac memorial here for people that had died in wars over the years. There had been a row of trees planted down a street but in one big storm one of the trees had fallen and there due to be chopped down but a local man came and craved the people into statues of people (you'll see in the photos), it is the best memorial i have seen. We travelld along to the bay of fires on the coast, it was called that because back when man first came to the east coast of tassie the aborginials had made fires on the beach to cook food and there were lots down the beaches. We stayed in a beach front property in bicheno which again was really nice.

Day 5 - We headed for Freycinet national park today here we talked to wineglass bay, another must see in tasmania. Firstly we wlaked to the lookout then to the beach. Some of the group went for a swim but it was far too cold for that, the sun had come out when we got the the beach which was nice for the photos. It doesn't show it from the photo's i have but the bay it shaped like a wineglass and when the whalers use to catch whales and kill then on the beach the water would turn red, hence the name. We travelled south after lunch to port arthur, we went on a ghost tour here as port arthur use to be a prison for the convicts sent over from england. Lots of people died and there are supposed to be lots of ghost unfortunitely i didn't get to see or feel and ghosts but i do believe.

Day 6 - we had the morning to look around the port arthur historic site viewing all the old house and prisons. It was a very english place with all the oak tree and the design of the buildings. We had a walking tour and a harbour cruise which were very good. After lunch we went to a wildlife park which had some tasmanian devils there. We got to see them being fed which was horrible as they eat everything including bones and fur of the animals they eat. About 3pm he headed back to hobart to finish the tour, the group went out for a meal at a fish restaurant on the harbour which was a nice way to end the tour.

i definitely think that people should visit tasmania as i feel that it's the nicest part of australia and not too commerical and not too many tourists.

that's all or now next update will be from new zealand.

love to everyone

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