(I've updated days 50 & 51)
Today we drove back to Hobart -- which is where the tour started 11 days ago. Pretty low-key day. We left Freycinet around 8am and arrived in Hobart at 3pm. Today's stops:
Weather: mix of sun & clouds & a bit of rain, 50 - 73F
Miles Walked: 5.3
kms driven on the Bus: 197
Book/s Read: Out of the Deep I Cry by Julia Spencer-Fleming. 3rd book in the Rev. Clare Fergusson / Russ Van Alstyne series. I've decided to read the series straight through (well I started a little off by reading the last one (#8) first).
Pic Notes:
Today we drove back to Hobart -- which is where the tour started 11 days ago. Pretty low-key day. We left Freycinet around 8am and arrived in Hobart at 3pm. Today's stops:
- Spiky Bridge: built in 1843 by convicts -- connected the east coast road to Hobart. It's constructed from field stones laid without mortar or cement. The parapet feature field stones laid vertically (hence the spiky bit). It's claimed that the spikes were designed to prevent cattle from falling over the sides.
- Richmond: beautiful old village. Houses the oldest Catholic church in Australia and the oldest still-in-use-bridge in the country. Lots of cool old sandstone cottages / buildings.
- Bonorong Wildlife Rescue Centre: wildlife center that rescues injured / orphaned wild animals. When possible -- nurtures the animals and then release them back out to the wild (they have a 96% success rate). They only have animals / birds native to Australia. They are also participating in the Tasmanian Devil breeding program. The tour guides were very good -- they work closely with the animals and really know their stuff.
- Tasmanian Devils only live in Tasmania. They are the largest carnivorous marsupials in Australia. Sadly their population is being wiped out -- 90% already gone -- the problem: a transmittable facial cancer with no treatment options (devils like to bite each other -- so the cancer is easily transmitted. Current estimate is that they will be extinct in the next 15 - 20 years. Australia is breeding disease free devils off on some remote island/s so that they can reintroduce if/when devils go extinct.
I think I have tour fatigue -- everyone in the group is starting to annoy me (well not everyone -- but at least 50%). So it's probably a good thing that tomorrow is the last day of the tour. I fly to Darwin early Friday morning.
Weather: mix of sun & clouds & a bit of rain, 50 - 73F
Miles Walked: 5.3
kms driven on the Bus: 197
Book/s Read: Out of the Deep I Cry by Julia Spencer-Fleming. 3rd book in the Rev. Clare Fergusson / Russ Van Alstyne series. I've decided to read the series straight through (well I started a little off by reading the last one (#8) first).
Pic Notes:
- 1 - 2: sunrise at Freycinet
- 3: Hobart (out of order)
- 4 - 5: Spiky Bridge
- 9 - 33: Richmond (bird is a http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Crescent_Honeyeater)
- 34 - 38: Bonorong
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