Australia 1995 part I - Victoria and Tasmania

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February 1st 1995

Published: March 14th 2021

A koala, a penguin, an echidna and a lot more We travelled also before we joined TravelBlog. We have started to digitalise photos from those pre-TravelBlog trips and we are planning to write about some of them. Now the turn has come to a trip Ake made in Australia in 1995. It was a three month long journey and there will be three blog posts from it. This is the first of those. Melbourne I st... Read Full Entry

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Ake Dahllof and Emma Holmbro

Ake Och Emma

We are Emma Holmbro and Ake Dahllof. We live in Stockholm, Sweden. We have travelled more or less regularly since the mid 1990-ies and it seems like the more we travel the more difficult it is to decide where to go next. Not because we are running out of places to visit but because we find more places we want to go to faster than we manage to travel to them. Some of the things from our travel bucket list we have ticked off since we started this blog in 2006 are Angel Falls in Ven... full info

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Cradle Mountain-Lake St Clair National Park

The scenery in the national park is spectacular

Cradle Mountain-Lake St Clair National Park

Outside the trail the national park is wild nature

Crater Lake

This lake in Cradle Mountain-Lake St Clair National Park is called Crater Lake

Plants

Plants in Cradle Mountain-Lake St Clair National Park

I have less hair today

This photo was taken almost exactly a quarter of a century before I write this text. I have much less hair today...

Hastings Caves

Hastings Caves are limestone caves filled with stalactites and everything else that limestone caves typically have.

Hastings Thermal Springs

The natural thermal springs are really small and quite unexciting.

Hastings Thermal Pool

Next to the hot springs there is a pool heated by the hot springs.

Penguins on Bruny Island

Penguins in the wild. They inhabit a beach on Bruny Island

Hotel in Hobart

This hotel in Hobart has decorated its wall with pictures of dead rock 'n' roll heroes. Curt, Johnny, Bon and Janis

Petrified tree

This looks like a wooden log but it is actually a petrified tree.

Launceston

Building in Launceston. I remember that Launceston city centre has a lot of nice buildings. I can recommend exploring those

Insect

That insect is huge.

This street is asking for it...

Is there also a Penis Rd somewhere nearby? Or perhaps a Dick Ave? Or maybe a Phallus Alley? A street with that name is asking for immature jokes. My job is to deliver

Me hiking

Bunjil Shelter

Bunjil's Shelter is a small cave with an aboriginal rock painting.

Grampians National Park

Grampians NP is large and there are many places of interest there. The hiking was good and the nature was just spectacular.

The Balconies

The Balconies is a spectacular lookout over a valley in Grampians National Park

Grampians National Park

Mackensie Falls is a wonderful waterfall

Something a bit funny at the end

A power generator loaded onto a pick-up truck, loaded onto a truck loaded onto a trailer

14th March 2021

D MJ Binkley
Dave and Merry Jo Binkley

Early travels
Some day I intend to do what you are doing and blog about past travels. Perspective and style changes. Thanks for sharing this trip with us.

14th March 2021

Ake Och Emma
Ake Dahllof and Emma Holmbro

I wish I had better photos
I am not proud of my photos from those days. But it is really good fun digging out the old journals and pictures because it brings back quite a few memories. /Ake

17th March 2021

starship VT
starship - VT

Past Memories
I enjoyed reading about your memories and seeing your photos of your trip to Australia. I have never been to Melbourne or Tasmania so that was interesting to see sites from there -- the Twelve Apostles and the Great Ocean Road would have been among my favorites.

17th March 2021

Ake Och Emma
Ake Dahllof and Emma Holmbro

My first major journey
This was my first major journey anywhere really. I was superexited about everything and came home overwhelmed by what I had seen and done. I'd love to go back and see things with a new perspective. And it would be nice to have my own set of wheels as well to be able to get around easier. And it would be nice to go there with a plan and do some research before instead of just jumping into everything as it comes. /Ake

29th May 2021

alex waring
Alexander Waring

Travel in the Nineties
Ah, your travel blog entry on Australian travels in the 1990s brings back memories for me. Not that I have travelled in Australia, but that I began travelling myself in the nineties. The non-digital photo age, and the hitch-hiking - ah, what wonderful times! I enjoyed reading this, it looks like you explored lots in and around Melbourne and Tasmania ?

29th May 2021

Ake Och Emma
Ake Dahllof and Emma Holmbro

Where did you travel in the 90-ies?
Please tell me the destination of one of your earlier travels. Have you written anything about any of them? /Ake

29th May 2021

alex waring
Alexander Waring

Early Travels
I did a trip around Central Mexico, and an Interrailaing trip around Europe, in the late 1990s. I have often considered writing up about these travels recently. Well done you for doing so ?

29th May 2021

alex waring
Alexander Waring

Ps.
Ps. I haven't written anything up about them yet, I have indeed been thinking about it.

19th May 2022

RENanDREW
Ren & Andrew

Pandani
These shrubs are uniquely Tasmanian and one of my favourites to spot while hiking in the alpine areas. I love that you did the Overland Track - Cradle Mountain is our favourite NP in Tas :)

19th May 2022

RENanDREW
Ren & Andrew

Nostalgia
I love this sculpture - it must have been a newish addition in 1995. I remember they added it in the early 90s while I was at uni and also using the State Library (building it's in front of) a lot... It took a bit of getting used to having it on the pavement; but despite bumping into it a few times when running to catch a tram (!) I really love it. I finally got around to reading your Australian blogs, and I have seriously enjoyed the nostalgia of seeing Melbourne as it was when I was growing up there. I grew up in the inner northern suburbs and only about 10km or so from West Coburg where you stayed :)

24th May 2022

Ake Och Emma
Ake Dahllof and Emma Holmbro

On bringing back memories
Writing the old blogs brings back memories for me. Glad to hear that I manage to bring back memories to you too. /Ake

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