Category Archives: Australia, 2010-11

We left Devonport yesterday, February 28, on the ferry to Melbourne.  The trip across the Bass Strait was very calm, much more so than when we went in to Tasmania.  We were the very last large vehicle off the ferry, … Continue reading →

We did get to see the little penguins last night.  We drove to Burnie to the viewing platform just a bit after eight pm.  The penguins showed up just as it got dark.  We saw about four of them.  They … Continue reading →

First this morning we drove in on the Bluff Point road.  We came to a spot where the road forked, to the left to a lighthouse, and to the right a road that was marked on my GPS maps as going … Continue reading →

It started raining sometime about eleven pm last night, and continued for much of the night, just a light drizzling rain that had mostly stopped by the time we ate breakfast.  With the clouds breaking we decided that we would … Continue reading →

It was for the most part another dull and cloudy day as we drove across the north west part of Tasmania to the very small resort town of Arthur River.  Much of the road today was better than anything else … Continue reading →

Though it wasn’t raining this morning, it wasn’t really bright and sunny either as we left Strahan.  After doing some business in town (getting fuel, refilling the LPG cylinder that was empty, and posting a letter to Enid’s mother) we … Continue reading →

Yesterday, February 21, wasn’t much of a day to do anything.  It was very cold the night before, and when we went over to the visitor information centre (just for something to occupy our time)  they had recorded the temperature overnight of … Continue reading →

It is very cold and wet today.  We arrived here at Lake St. Clair, at 200 m the deepest lake in Australia, just shortly after noon.  It was raining heavily all the way here on the drive from New Norfolk.  … Continue reading →

It began to rain just as we started packing up this morning, and it continued for most of the day.  At times it was a heavy downpour, at other times just a very light sprinkle.  We did limit our activities … Continue reading →

Today we toured the ruins at Port Arthur, one of the original convict prisons for transported prisoners in (then) Van Diemen’s Land.  It was interesting, though somewhat depressing, to see how badly treated the prisoners were, though the authorities thought … Continue reading →