Thanks for the wild hike! Many of us will never again make it out to rugged, remote, gorgeous mountains like these, so thanks for taking us along. Great photos, but you really must return. I was looking for your exotic pandani plants, but didn't see them--maybe next trip! Glad you avoided fire and rain!
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What an adventure! Mud, leeches, primeval forests, impressive sights and healing silence few get to experience--a perfect way to bring in the new year! My backpacking days are over, so it was fabulous reading of your escapades from the comfort of my room here in Arequipa. So glad you're enjoying getting out in the amazing nature of your adopted home though it's hard to believe that it's been over three years. Tempis fugit--good thing you're making the most of it!
Happy Tassies Great adventures and fine Photos, as usual! I'll be heading out again to our back country here in Peru as soon as my two broken arms heal (pushed over a cliff by a rude cow).
Congrats! Wow--a new house with goats and wildlife and a bushwalking club. Sounds pretty sweet! Congrats also on climbing Mount Ossa--what great views! I was wondering what you two were up to, and then I returned from a wifi-less visa run to Bolivia to find you've been doing the usual outdoor adventures. So glad you love your new home. Best wishes for lots of hiking!
Overland Track Well done. The Overland Track is certainly an achievement. Magnificent rugged locales. Three days two nights...do you perchance plan to do Cradle Mountain to Lake St Clair which is about a five to six day trek?
Tasmanian transplants! You two are certainly making the most of your new home--you may have trekked more of it than those born there! Gorgeous landscapes and quite the hikes up those mountains--glad you enjoyed a cushy refuge after all that work! Would this park see snow in the winter? If so, that could be glorious though trekking tricky.
Fantastico Estos lugares son los que encantan a colombia, las bellas ciudades coloniales que embuelven a nuestro gran pais y lo viste de muros gruesos y arquitectura antigua en un siglo diferente.
Itinerary details Hello, Thank you for the information you provide, it is very helpful! I am planning an up to one year trip to SA, pretty closely following this route, excluding Brazil. I am wondering though if there is somewhere you list all the places for the dots you have on the itinerary photo (some clumps of dots are hard to decipher where you've been) ? Have you written any more on the specific places and countries you visited besides your top "5" lists, and the highlights/lowlights for each? Thanks!
Wilderness Not having been to this National Park, I love the concept that this wilderness is only accessible by foot ensuring that special feel when entered. Glad you loved it.
Amazing photos Hi Will and Alex, loved the photos from your Mt Anne walk. I started reading your blogs whilst researching South America and now I get to enjoy reading about your adventures in my beautiful Tassie home. I hope you are both settling in here and enjoying our weird and wonderful weather.
Cheers Lee-Anne
You've chosen well Yep, Tassie has some incredibly beautiful places - probably a good thing the best ones are harder to get to.
'Everything closed on Sunday' - reminds me of when I first moved to Tassie. I went to check out my local shopping centre Glenorchy on a Saturday afternoon - and found a complete ghost town!
Just by looking at the beauty of your pictures, I reckon that the great adventure is quite worth it, congratulations on that courage and positive energy. Frankardenas
There goes the secret You have let the cat out of the bag...Oz's best kept secret...Tasmania. When I've finished my Patagonia blogs I'll share the delights of Tassie clime...breathtaking. Lucky you to call it home.
Great to hear from you... from your new home. It sounds and looks like paradise...with nice people and beautiful scenery What a relief that you both have jobs and can settle down. Just don't forget about blogging when you do get out and about.
Paradise Found What a slice of heaven you've found--both the city, with its art house cinemas, fresh produce, etc, and the stunning, walkable countryside. Congrats on setting up an adventurous new life, and how wise of you to get a place and a car to smooth the paperwork transition. Best wishes in your new home, and I look forward to blogs on the great places you discover!
A new life down under It sounds like you've selected a perfect place for you to relocate. Glad things are going well. Hopefully you'll do a few more blogs about the area and the hikes you are doing. That could be helpful to us when we return.
Great blog and good luck! you're leading the life, the real one! Good luck to both of you! I used to live in Perth and reading your blog entry made me miss it a lot... I am also a teacher and after reading your article, i feel ready to move back Down Under!! Sigh... someday maybe. Great pics! Happy Chinese New Year! (lots of Chinese in Tasmania?) Best from Jeremy
Salkantay Trek This blog brought back many wonderful memories. It was an amazing experience for our group. We were all over 55 and coped reasonably well. The altitude was the hardest thing to cope with, even though we had spent many days in Cusco. One of the highlights of my life.
We live to travel - and we travel to live. We've been exploring the globe together for the past 13 years - and there's still so much to see. In March 2013 we moved from the United Kingdom to the other side of the globe - our new home is Tasmania and we look forward to getting to know this gorgeous part of the world.
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Thanks for the wild hike!
Many of us will never again make it out to rugged, remote, gorgeous mountains like these, so thanks for taking us along. Great photos, but you really must return. I was looking for your exotic pandani plants, but didn't see them--maybe next trip! Glad you avoided fire and rain!