Picking up from where I stopped the other time...
After spending some time in Hobart... we headed further south to the Tasman Peninsula...
We had the keys to a friend's shack at Eaglehawck Neck... by the time we reached there it was late in the evening... and for the first time in my life I had spotted wallabies which ended up hopping towards me and freaking me out...
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The morning after we started exploring the area around... we drove to the Tasman Arch which has a stunning view to the Ocean...
And the ever steep Devil's Kitchen... I wonder what was he cooking down there...
Trying to find some fossils at the Fossil Bay...
And looking at the blowhole... though it had no sound, only a bad breathe...
We kept driving to Port Arthur and though we made it to the site... we decided not to venture going inside. Port Arthur has a major role in the History of Australia. This was a convict settlement in the 1800s where British and Irish convicts were brought here. The site is heavy with memories as another tragedy took place in 1996 when 35 people were killed in what is know known as Port Arthur Massacre.
* Image by the Hubby
Along our drives... we came by a nice white beach... simply beautiful... a beach no famous but for those lucky enough to live nearby...
We drove by many small towns... and had fish and chips at a local place in Nubeena where instantly we felt we were the strangers and the new faces of the day for the locals eating and working there...
We visited Maingon Bay...
where you can see the special rock formation on the outside wall of Remarkable Cave
before you actually go inside the cave to take an insider look at how the ocean can deeply kiss the earth...
We reached further down to the Coal Mines Historic Site and walked there until the sunset. This site is full of memories too where convicts were used as cheap labors to dig out coals. Many lives had vanished on that site.
After that we drove back to Eaglehawk Neck finishing up the whole road circuit in the Peninsula.
Next day we managed an early visit to the Tessellated Pavements... a marvelous work of time and pressure... nature being sculpted in the most precise geometrical forms I've seen in nature.
And then we headed back up to Hobart.... before our next drive up North along the east coast....
Chapter III: The East Coast
to be continued...
After spending some time in Hobart... we headed further south to the Tasman Peninsula...
We had the keys to a friend's shack at Eaglehawck Neck... by the time we reached there it was late in the evening... and for the first time in my life I had spotted wallabies which ended up hopping towards me and freaking me out...
The morning after we started exploring the area around... we drove to the Tasman Arch which has a stunning view to the Ocean...
And the ever steep Devil's Kitchen... I wonder what was he cooking down there...
Trying to find some fossils at the Fossil Bay...
And looking at the blowhole... though it had no sound, only a bad breathe...
We kept driving to Port Arthur and though we made it to the site... we decided not to venture going inside. Port Arthur has a major role in the History of Australia. This was a convict settlement in the 1800s where British and Irish convicts were brought here. The site is heavy with memories as another tragedy took place in 1996 when 35 people were killed in what is know known as Port Arthur Massacre.
* Image by the Hubby
Along our drives... we came by a nice white beach... simply beautiful... a beach no famous but for those lucky enough to live nearby...
We drove by many small towns... and had fish and chips at a local place in Nubeena where instantly we felt we were the strangers and the new faces of the day for the locals eating and working there...
We visited Maingon Bay...
where you can see the special rock formation on the outside wall of Remarkable Cave
before you actually go inside the cave to take an insider look at how the ocean can deeply kiss the earth...
We reached further down to the Coal Mines Historic Site and walked there until the sunset. This site is full of memories too where convicts were used as cheap labors to dig out coals. Many lives had vanished on that site.
After that we drove back to Eaglehawk Neck finishing up the whole road circuit in the Peninsula.
Next day we managed an early visit to the Tessellated Pavements... a marvelous work of time and pressure... nature being sculpted in the most precise geometrical forms I've seen in nature.
And then we headed back up to Hobart.... before our next drive up North along the east coast....
Chapter III: The East Coast
to be continued...
