Day 1.. Part 3

We arrived in Burnie in the dark and after driving around and around, and discovering Burnie is WAY bigger than we had expected and that we were not easily finding our accommodation, Tim consulted his magic iphone and googlemaps which pointed us in the right direction.. It was very exciting to find a juke box in the loungeroom for our entertainment.
Sandy and Jenny joined us for coffee

Day 1 - Part 2

After the chocolate factory, our next stop was Devonport...the main port for Northern Tasmania, and home of the only car ferry service between the mainland and Tasmania. We had a quick stop here - I photographed the "Spirit of Tasmania"
and everyone else sent sms messages to Chris, which seemed to vastly amuse them:)

After that little interlude we continued onto Penguin.

Penguin is a tiny town on Bass Strait.. very very cute and scenic. It was nearly dark by this time, but we could see enough to see the lovely views up the coastline and out to Bass Strait,
... and the local attractions..the Penguin rubbish bins
, the Big Penguin

and The Groovy Penguin.

Tassie. - Day 1 - Part 1

Day 1 saw us early to the airport, where we breakfasted, and amused ourselves with games from Tim's iphone, followed by a quick uneventful trip to Launceston.
Megs Malin and Tim were very excited to have their own car to do their road trip. They were especially pleased to recieve a red one..apparently this is important and makes a difference??


Our first stop was Cataract Gorge where we took the chairlift across the swollen river(we were apparently lucky as they closed access to the gorge the next day due to safety concerns after the recent floods).

Afterwe had crossed the gorge by chairlift, we walked back across the suspension bridge

and Dad showed off his chin up skills,

then hopped back in our cars and headed for Burnie, via. a raspberry farm ( don't bother), a cheese factory(don't bother),although these fibreglass cows provided entertainment

and a chocolate factory (the best part was the children's playground.