Spring break Part 2

Day 3 

We had another early start this morning, but met our guide Carl who is SUPER HILARIOUS. He trolled us all the time, but sometimes you couldn’t tell because he was so serious. He took us to Cataract Gorge in Launceston. This was actually right near the park Peyton and I were at our first day, by the river. We walked with Susan and everyone else through a nice paved trail through the gorge. We crossed the Alexandra suspension bridge to get back to the bus. From there, Carl drove us to the town of St. Helen’s to stop for food and a quick break.

At the gorge!

We then made our way to the Cosy Corner of the Bay of Fires. It was a little cloudy when we first got there, but it was beautiful a little later. 

Bay of Fires.

We stopped briefly at a nice lookout on our way to Bicheno. 

We made it to Bicheno just before sunset. The three of us hiked to a close lookout and managed to make it before the sunset.

Day 4 

 In the morning, Carl took us up to Freycinet National Park for  some hiking. We first hiked up to a lookout overlooking the bay…of course we had to have some fun on the way up! 

Cool looking rock and us.

It took us about an hour to hike up to this point and we still had a quite a bit of time to kill, so Susan, Peyton, and I decided to hike down to the beach you see in the picture (Wineglass Bay). The beach was really gorgeous – beautiful clear water and white sand with shells.

Down at the beach!

From there, Carl took us to the small town of Ross to stop for lunch. Susan and I tried both of the two bakeries in town. At the first one, Bakery31, we split a salmon and brie pie and a scallop pie. At the Ross Bakery, we split their “world famous vanilla slice”.

We left Ross for the Bonorong Wildlife Sanctuary. The visit here was really awesome! We had a guide at the sanctuary who showed us the wombat Lucy and a baby wombat…SO CUTE! We also got to see a lot of Tasmanian Devils. He then showed us one of the koalas. The guide was super nice and asked us if we wanted to take pictures with the koala and OF COURSE we said YES. There were also two wallabies that were fighting BUT it looked like they were DANCING…AWWW!

 Each person on the tour got a bag of kangaroo food. The sanctuary had a GIANT pen filled with 90+ kangaroos that we got to hang out in for a bit. At one point, for some reason I because super popular and I had like 4 kangaroos trying to get food from me.

I'm feeding kangaroos!

After the sanctuary, Carl took us into Hobart to stay the night. We dropped our stuff at our hostel, Montgomery’s on Argyle St. Susan, Peyton, Stephanie, and I headed out to walk around Hobart for a bit. 

The last part to come a bit later!

Stephanie