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[jobob]

Just popping in to wish you a great trip, Ellen !

- Jo.

[DrBadger]

Back again!

I spoke with my sister and she had a few suggestions.

She thought that the 3 places you had chosen were great.

Mt Field: Unless you are super fit, don't bother going up to the Tarn Shelf and Mt Field West, but spend your time walking around Lake Dobson to Twilight Tarn and the little museum there.

At Port Arthur, go to Tasman Arch and do the Clifftop walk to Waterfall Bay. Don't bother with the Fortescue Bay/Cape Raul walk as you won't have time.

She said that Bruny Island is great. She mentioned the Lighthouse there and a walk from Adventure Bay round to the Cape. She also has heard that they do boat trips from Adventure Bay out to see the seals. Apparently, there is a great tourist info service at the Ferry as you arrive at Bruny which will tell you all you need to know.

I hope that this helps a little.
Have a great trip,
Sue

Thanks Sue!
This helps a lot, it is great to have an idea of what to really spend my time at, and what to skip given how little time I will have in Tasmania. I will be printing this all out to take with me!

Just popping in to wish you a great trip, Ellen !

- Jo.

Hey Jo-
Kind of hard to believe that I leave in just over a week! I am still frantically trying to get some new results to show at the conference that I am attending (the real reason for the trip, or at least the excuse ). Then once I get back it will be the mad dash to my defense I will be around all summer though, and hope to get a lot of riding in... we will have to plan another Bay Area TE ride!
Ellen

[susanm8048]

Have a great trip. I wish I was going too!!
Sue

[crazycanuck]

Hey Ellen,

When do you leave????

Hope your trip goes smoothly & no encounters with roos on the roads.

Take care
C

[DrBadger]

Hey Ladies!
Thanks for all the help with the trip planning! It was great! Got back April 27, but things have been crazy busy since then and I actually just got a selection of my photos uploaded for people to see. You can see them at: http://picasaweb.google.com/ellen.mallman/Australia
This is only a small selection of the almost 500 photos I took Amazing how many photos you take when you are by yourself!

I think that the best thing that I did was climbing the Sydney Harbor Bridge (granted it was also the most expensive!). I did the twilight climb, so it was light as we went up, and we got to watch the sun set and the lights come up over Sydney... amazing! I would highly reccommend it to anyone going to Sydney!

I did real well with my wild life sighting also, and not just in wildlife parks! In the wild I saw: wollabies, parrots, flying fox, echidna, platypus!, Tasmanian devil, but no penguins I did get to hold a koala though... but I had to pay for that

All in all a great trip, and I can't wait to go back again, especially to Tasmania to do more hiking and see more of the island as I only had 3 full days there.

Also, I did quite well with my first experience driving on the wrong side of the road! The first time was a little stressful since it was after dark, raining, and I was trying to find my hostel in Hobart But after that it was fine, though I did keep turning on my windshield whipers when I wanted to turn on my turn signal!

Thanks again for the help!
Ellen