Tasmania - Trip Day 8

Blogging on a saturday morning... Boo hoo! Sheer bordem! I have half a mind to do my work since I have my laptop with me. Maybe I should.. spend my time more constructively.

I am starting to forget details of the trip by now. Hoho! This should be a brief entry.

Day 8 -- Our destination was towards Launceston city. The next major city in Tasmania.

Our first stop was at first to be another fruit farm. But we decided to forgo that to spend a leisure morning at our wonderful beach house. We could not bear to say good bye to it. We even snapped some group pictures.

Anyway, so our new first stop was the st columbia falls. This falls is so much more magnificent than the one we saw at Melbourne. N we did not even have to walk haf as hard. The distance was shorter and the slopes were much more gentler and there's werent steps. I still feel cheated.

Some pics of what we saw on the road....






Result of a forest fire.


I think the trees looks rather nice though... haha


loads of 'moo-moo's on the road. Gary was thinking of steak everytime we past by a load of cows. He is able to different which cows makes the best steak. something to do with the build of the cow and the muscles or something. My love for beef has not gone to such extent for me to distinct the good cows. I mean I wun be able to grab one and go home and crave it anyway. Gary's knowledge and passion for steaks is power!


Gary was thinking of steaks when taking this pic. haha


Mooooooo~~~~


The falls from a distant...


a stream?

Our next destination was suppose to be a wildlife park. But when we got there, it was closed already. The closing time and the stated closing on the website was about 2 hours difference. We got cheated. All that travelling time for nothing!!

we headed for launceston city early for a view. They were having a like a mini fun fair similar to our pasar malam but you got to pay like 10 bucks per person so we skipped it. Not as if we get free food.

After a quick drive round the city, we realise its not as vibrant as Hobart city. There werent much life along the streets.

We decided to check in to our new accomodation. Its suppose to be a victorian townhouse which means its a really really old house. N yes, it did look rather old on the inside. But thank goodness, it was clean and as a warmth feeling on the inside. Its not as modern but its comfortable enuff.
The toilet cum bathroom was really huge! But once again.... there's only one!!! Sad!







Dinner that night was steak! haha! Good for Gary who have an extreme craving for them after seeing all the cows.

We went to the JailHouse Grill which is supposedly one of the best steak house in Tasmania. Thankfully, we went early cause it seems you have to make reservations to ensure a seat in there.

Dinner Dinner.... I cant rem wat cuts we each have... so jus see pictureS?






Grilling steaks... see the thing in the corner? looks like some torture equipment in the "Jailhouse"


Some salad from the bar..


Garlic bread with the shadown of some1's fingers in the background.


Gary's steak


Pork ribs.


More steaks..


seafood...


Duck... super awkard angle...


A bite anyone?

The steak was pretty good. Except mine, it was a bit too well-done.. so abit tuff but still good.. Shld have asked for medium. Gary's was yummy and juicy. They had a salad bar like that of Sizzlers.. kind of yummy too. The steakhouse was overall not bad but we think it is a bit sad if it is like the best steak house in Tasmania. Not much of a "wow" factor.

After dinner, we did a little shopping at the supermarket. Got to stock up on sweets and chocs before we go back to sg...... then its back to our accomodation for some relaxation.

it was really cold in the townhouse at night.... i enjoyed curling up in my heated matterus bed... hibernation.... hehe

That's for day 8

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...