Sunday, January 4, 2009

Tasmania!


We have arrived in Tasmania! Watch out for Tassie Devils!

We began our trip by stopping by lookout spots. Tasmania is beautiful! The water is turquoise and the mountains are high!

The four of out at a lookout. One of many!

Lookout! It was amazing to see the shear cliffs going into the ocean.

Campsite number one. Our tent is right by the beach! It was wonderful!

This was the beach behind our tent.

Our beach...it was called Richardson's Beach.

More beach.

And our backpacking trip begins!

Lunch break on the beach. This is Hazards Beach. Yeah, it was amazing!

Hazards Beach.

Our hike took us long the beach. It was my first backpacking trip along the beach! It was gorgeous!

Almost at the end of the beach.

Campsite number two. Right on the beach again!

Justin relaxing on the beach after our long hike!

Double rainbow! These rainbows were the most brilliant and distinct rainbows I had ever seen. They were beautiful.

Day two of the hike!

Beautiful scenery on the hike.

Me and Justin with Wineglass Bay in the background.
Finally, we made it to Wineglass Bay! It was a LONG hike to get there, but way worth it!

Wineglass Bay from a lookout.

Back in Hobart for New Years Eve! We ended up going on a cruise and watched fireworks at midnights on the water. It was nice!

A big boat race called Sydney to Hobart just finished up and here are all of the boats.

Me and Justin!

Now, we are back in nature. We had to cancel our second backpacking trip because it was so cold and it was snowing. Now, that might seem normal to those reading this back home, but it is the middle of summer here. It was the coldest December in Tassie in 15 years. Most of our hikes were in 40 degree weather, when last year at the same time it was in the 70s-80s.

Beautiful scenery from a lookout.

Us on top of a lookout.

Pretty much the last two days of our Tassie trip it either rained or snowed. Here is me and Ben surviving out in the rain!


Mountain waterfall!

Cradle Mountain....in the snow!
Cradle Mountain


Hiking around Dove Lake at the base of Cradle Mountain. It was like a snow storm!

Justin by a snow man...now please remember this is the middle of SUMMER!!
More mountains!

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