Lee & Jim's Travels: Travelling in Tasmania

Hi to all from Tasmania

Here we are again our notes from Tasmania:

We finished the house sit in Elizabeth Town, all went well and we had a great time looking around the area. we then moved down to New Norfolk to do another house sit for 7 days to look after 2 dogs 2 Cats 6 Damara sheep (which come from East Asia & Egypt around 3000BC and were introduced to Australia from South Africa in 1996) thanks to the Internet for the info, they also had a Pony and 13 chooks. While we were there the two ewe's that were pregnant had a baby Ram each, which was a bit of a shock to me as the owner thought they would be born in August.

We have been looking at some houses and land that are for sale around the places we visit and are keeping notes on them on the good places.

We went for a drive to Mt Fields National Park to check out the walks and the falls in the Park, the walk wasn't too bad thought the park but the falls were great so we decided to walk to the top of the falls and phew it was a harder climb with lots of steps but we did it and we both were glad we did, as it was great too see.

We then headed to Dobson Lake where it had snowed the day before and Lee wanted to play in the snow, but it was too late in the day to start on the drive up the mountain, so we decided that we would come back the morning, The next day on the way up to Lake Dobson we seen some good snow so Lee had her play in the snow and made a snowball, We continued to the lake and it was frozen over, while walking around the lake we saw a a small wallaby the Tasmanians call them paddy melons, which was warming its self up in the sun it’s a wonderland up there at this time of the year.

We are heading up the east coast from here stopping over in Swansea and St Helens to have a look around to see what we missed the first time around we stayed in B&B's which were great and the breakfasts were to die for one B&B's even served black-pudding and haggis if you wanted some, they were great B&B's.

Heading towards Lanena from St Helens on the Tasman Hwy if you could call it a highway the road had more turns than a go go dancer and it was all done in the rain so it took us alot longer than expected but we did it with out any problems