Tom, Ned and Oscar on the airwalk

Giant swamp gums on the banks of the Huon River

Oh what a beautiful morning! We spent the night, quite by accident in a heritage park in the centre of a little town called Geeveston. We were going to drive up to the Tahune air walk and camp there as we had heard that it was a free camp. However, as we drove to the outskirts of Geeveston at around 5 pm, we saw a couple of vans pull off in to a grassy area the size of two football fields and start to set up. It was a glorious afternoon, still sunny and warm ...

Oscar catching a beautiful skink on the edge of Lake St Clair, Tasmania. I love how thrilled he looks. It was a bitter day and nobody felt like a big hike. So we perused the visitor's centre and chased Skinks around rocks before being chased ourselves back to our car by a thunderous downpour.

Had a lovely day here on the sunny west coast on Tuesday. Went to look at the truly massive surf off west point. Tom had checked it earlier in the day and he'd not gone out cause it was too big! It was very impressive. Big slabs of water breaking all the way across the bay. I was very intimidated- this was a completely different level of surfing and I felt quite scared for those brave enough to paddle out through the rocks. Apparently, it had dropped off a l...