Tasmania

Spirit of Tasmania

Brekkie 

Wineglass bay

Yup, we tore apart the broken stove and did it cave man style

Proof that I drove...a manual too

Cradle Mountain

My spring break...er rather Easter Break was spent in the cold cold Australian state of Tasmania. From what I've picked up, Taz and Tazmanians are always at the receiving end of any bogan, worthless Australian joke. I however found out that it's gorgeous there. Me, an American (Jules) and two Australians (Sarah and Mel) took The Spirit of Tazmania over (a giant ferry) and Mel's very tiny car. We packed that thing full of tents, food, sleeping bags, mats, toilet paper, pots and all the essentials. We did a 5 day, 4 night road trip/camping trip which we covered most of the state. We hit up the popular Cradle Mountain, Wineglass Bay and the capital, Hobart. In Hobart we stayed with a friend from college where we appreciated the warm shower, great food and a bed. We also went through many small towns. We counted roughtly 50 roadkill a day!! Mostly wallabies but a few tazmanian devils. Our first dinner, we quickly found out the gas stove that we brought didn't work and from the picture above you can see how we manned up, and cooked over an open fire (ended up taking about 2 or 3 hours to cook pasta and chicken this way since we couldn't find any good logs to put on the fire without a hatchet). As you can imagine we only did this method only the first night and instead resorted to cooking with these free electric stove BBQ type things that were randomly around Taz. The last morning we were awoken to POURING rain and our tent collapsing on us due to the STRONG winds. We got soaked, our tent got almost gross...good thing it was the last day! While hiking around Dove Lake (pictured above) right below cradle mountain it snowed on us...up the hype was right - very cold but beautiful.