We made a number of trips to Tasmania for little breaks over 2007. It's quite convenient and not too expensive to make the trip across Bass Strait from Melbourne, especially when you manage to plan it for the off-season. Here are some pics taken during a short stay over Easter last year (2007).
As we only had a few days, we mainly spent the time in Hobart, visiting the weekend Markets at Salamanca and taking strolls around the waterfront and such.
A mere 30 minutes away from Hobart is the little tourist town of Richmond, home of Australia's oldest road bridge.
We did manage to do some camping however, making a trip to Mount Field National Park. We were hoping to get there in time to witness the 'turning of the fagus'. No this is not some feral homosexual coming of age ceremony in the Tassie wilderness, but the mass burst of autumnal colours of Australia's only native deciduous tree. Anyway to cut a long story short, after five hours of rather tough tramping over rough terrain up to Tarn Shelf, it seemed that we were too early in the season and the trees had not started to change their livery yet. Oh well...the scenery was breathtaking all the same.
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