Tasmania Day 2 - Trip Day 7

Day 7 - Our itinerary was towards the north of Tasmania. We were at Hobart which is like at the south of Tasmania.

Our first stop was the Sorell Fruit Farm. Yes, we have a craze for fruits picking. The fruits that were in season at that time was cherries and strawberries. Normally, at this time of the year, we will have missed the cherry season. However, because of the cooler weather of Tasmania, it seems like the season is like 2 months behind that of Melbourne and Perth. So excited! Enuff of strawberries, its time to get our hands dirty for cherries!


We were picking blood red cherries!


artistic anot? keke


cherries anyone?


cherry trees/ bushes. Anyway, there went much cherries left in this bushes to pick. We then headed to the area with really tall cherry trees.


The most beautiful cherries were those right on top of the tree (where most pple cant reach them of cause). We dragged down some branches and even climbed one or 2 trees to get to them. Shhh!!!


see how much taller these trees are.


we picked a bit of strawberries jus for the fun of it. These strawberries were as beautiful, large, juicy and sweet like the one we picked @ Melbourne. Some were even sour. Bleahz!


ice cream!!! i saw the shop was selling ice cream and asked for one! Their ice cream was absolutely heavenly. creamy milky taste!! Mine was strawberry. BC's one was blueberry!! the blueberry was so so good!! I kinda miss the ice cream now! :(




couldnt resist taking some beautiful scenery pics while on the road.

Next stop was freycinet oyster farm. Sounds really cool. we were hoping to have a better luck with oysters this time round. When we reach there, we realised the so-called farm is jus a small hut selling oysters. Geez! wat farm! Well.. they did had oysters. Really small ones though. Reason? Spawning season. Those oysters they have are those that are unable to "spawn" apparently. Geez! Nevetheless we did have some. Fresh oysters are really salty! I thot they were pretty ok. But Gary said china has really good, cheap big and really juicy oysters. geez. Jealous!


Third stop was at Coles Bay for lunch.




Beautiful!


baby mussels found on the rocks.

Lunch was yet again... Fish n chips... HAHA! Still not good enuff for us. Bleahz! Not a single good fish n chips this time round. keke!


Then its time to head to Bicheno for our accomodation!! I love this accomodation the best!! Its huge! Its new! It has everything! Its beautiful! It has a fireplace! It has a beautiful view! N It is near the beach!!!! When i grow old and retire, I wan a beach house like that! Its so beautiful.. that we dread the next day where we have to leave it for another. Oh! n it has 4 toilets! the other accomodation we stayed all only had one! so troublesome when we have 6 pple!!













The beach infront of our house! the waves are really strong here. There were about 3-5 pple surfing there. Boy... must b cold.


Having fun with the icy cold water...

We had an early home cooked dinner at our accomodation. We got a penguin tour at 9pm that night. This tour is more exciting than the one we had at Phillips island back in Melbourne. We were allowed to take pictures(without flash of course) and then the penguins are really close to us! So within reach.. no barriers... a couple of them even ran past my feet. hehe! so exciting! Only thing the tour is done in darkness.. except for a couple of torch light shown by the guides. ALso, the weather is even much colder in the night. Brrr! freezing our butt off...

its really difficult to take pics in the night with no light with my camera. But we did manage a few shots when the guide shined his torchlight at some penguins near us. This tour was totally worth it.


Feeding...


many many many.......


The best shot we got!

N then its back to our warm n cosy apartment......

we tried to keep ourselves awake with nachos and movies as we wanna spend more time with this beautiful house for the next day, we b leaving.. hehe! wierdo us.

So that ends day 7.... few more days left...

Tasmania - Trip Day 6

At ard 9pm, we reached Melbourne airport to catch our domestic flight to Hobart, Tasmania. There was ard nearly to an hour flight delay for our flight due to some technical issue. We heard an annoucement later that it was due to some fault with the pilot's chair. This is considered a technical issue?! Sheesh! Such a waste of our time.


While waiting for the so-called technical glitch to be resolved. Manz! I am FAT!!

Being the first day of CNY, all of us were wearing something red that day to get ourselves in the festive mood. hehe!

We reach Tasmania around 11. We then head out to the Barilla Oyster Farm which was like 5 mins drive from the airport. This oyster farm was featured by some channel 8 travel show ("ming xing dao you") so I guess its pretty well-known! We were suppose to have our lunch there and maybe look at the oyster farm. But guess what? NO OYSTERS!!! I mean no fresh oysters! why? because its spawning season! *FAINT*.. such luck we have.


Tasmania Airport.


Barilla Oyster Farm


Geez!


Oyster Kirkpatrik. They still had frozen oysters.


Baked oyster... cant rem the name. Not very nice.


Fries.


BAcon wrapped scallops.


Calamari. this is good.


Clam Chowder. MMmmm!!! thick and nice.


Pasta Marinara. Loads of seafood! The best! Love the fat juicy mussels.

After lunch, its time for our next destination. The Tahune Airwalk. We really love the sceneries of Tasmania when on the road. Its really beautiful. The waters are so blue and calm. And the mountainous background makes it even more gorgeous. Its unlike the usual view we see on the road which is mostly fields and vineyards.












This is taken by Casio Camera.. Love the deep blue colours!!!

Did I mention that Tasmania was really cold? I mean I was not prepared for the weather with my normal jacket. So when the winds blows, I was like freezing!! I really cant stand cold!! Thank goodness, the rest have an extra windbreaker. The weather was like Melbourne, where it was hot like sg.

Pictures from Tahune Airwalk....






The view of the walkpath from below...











Everytime after a strenous walk... there's always a food reward!



Next stop was Mt Wellington. "The Mountain" of Hobart City. We went right to the top of the mountain which is about 1271m above sea level. The wind was ice freezing cold!!! N I was wearing slippers instead of covered shoes. I felt like my toes are about to drop off!! Haha!! Really awesome view from the top though.




Frozen smiles.

Due to some fault of my SD card, did not manage to take any pics of our accomodation of the day. We stayed in Hobart city. The streets were not that quiet towards the night.

We had nandos for dinner that night.