After setting up our tent we quickly met the couple next to us who were from holland but currently live in Melbourne. The amount of alchohol and food that we brought to the island was stagering and we quickly had a large feast. Large feasts while camping leads to early bed times with no fire. […]
Archive for January 2010
Maria island
January 31, 2010Travel Day
January 29, 2010Today was mostly a travel day. We awoke to the sounds of the ocean and did a small hike along the beach. We then traveled back north, through civilization (where we got some supplies) and up the east coast of tas. We then took a boat out to Maria island where we set up our […]
Fortescue Bay
January 29, 2010Today we drove into fortescue bay on the Tasman pennisula. Its a really nice beach with a campground. After taking a 5 mile hike (that constantly had us going up and down hills) to Cape Hauy we finally arived at the Totem Pole. I had read about this pole. It’s basically part of the cliff […]
Tas Devils & Port Arthur
January 28, 2010The Tasman penninsula is a bit of land one the southeast side of the island. It was used as a maximum security prison in the 1800s. There were no walls as the only way off is through a small point of land that connects the penninsula to the island. We first stopped at a Tasmanian […]
Hartz Mtn
January 27, 2010Finally left Hobart today. We went down southwest from the capital to go for a hike. We started at some foresting area (where they told us they were planting our future — how nice since they just cut it down) where we saw our first wild wallaby. He hopped right by. We then decided to […]
Tasmania
January 25, 2010Arrived Monday to find mike Winstandley at the hotel (no beer in hand, but that was quickly rectified). We have a month here together to see the sights and do the overland trek. Mike mast will be joining us in two weeks for the trek. Until then mwinstan and I will be taking a car […]
The Wiggen's Travels 