Tasmania!
We left for the airport super early in order to get there on time- which we did in plenty, and then learnt that the plane would be delayed by half an hour at the least. This was due to fog over Launceston (the destination for this leg of the trip). Once we finally made it into the air, after being called for over the intercom on a final boarding call... (lets just say there were a lot of "firsts" to this trip).
We had a relatively non eventful flight, until we were above the top of Tasmania where we were yet again, put into a left hand hold and were left circling Tasmania (I think I counted five times at least!- it was for about an hour.) With at one point during that time when the Pilot said that it was okay that we're just waiting for 600-1000m of visibility on the ground, and we had an hour and a half fuel left (reassuring until we had been the for an hour). We had a plane that was coming in from Sydney at the same time ahead of us, which attempted landing once, and at last minute couldn't, then attempt again, and if that wasn't to be had, they were diverting to Hobart. If that ended up happening (which it didn't) we would have followed a similar path I would think.
The plane from Sydney in front of us waiting for the fog to clear/lift.
Launceston Airport
We got off the plane, finally, and got a car (SUV type thing) to drive around in for the next four days and headed North-ish. We had no itinerary and were just kinda figuring out what to do as we felt like. Not the way I'm use to doing things, but it worked.
We ended up in Deloraine where we found an info centre and they suggested a few different place to us. One being the Marakoopa caves where we had an hours guided tour, with the history and how it was formed. And then we headed to Trowunna Wildlife Park- which was possibly my absolute favourite/highlight of the trip!
Marakoopa Caves
At Trowunna, we got to hold a wombat, touch/pat a Tasmanian Devil, feed kangaroos, pet the said kangaroos and their joey's, and shake hands with them too. We saw other animals but the Tassie Devils, kangaroo's and the wombat were the more interactive sorta ones.
Daniel with the wombat.
Me with the wombat.
Cute Tassie Devil!
Feeding a kangaroo- from the bag of pellets.
Joey.
Me with the kangaroo.
The following day we headed down to Hobart and had a look at the Salamanca Markets, and walked around the wharf and looked around a bit before walking up a MASSIVE hill that overlooked Hobart- pretty amazing sites, pity we didn't know that you could drive up there in the first place! The walk was pretty neat though- and we saw a wild wallaby on the way back down.
Hobart Wharf.
Top of the hill! Looking out over Hobart/ Tasmania.
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