Blogs from Mount Field, Tasmania, Australia, Oceania - page 2

From lake St Clair we went to Mt field national park.There we went on a walk and saw more trees and water falls.I met some japanese people and spoke to them in Japanese.We made a wallaby friend that we could pat we named him skipper.Next we went to StrathGordon and saw a big really big dam wall.At the dam wall we saw people abseiling (the biggest free abseiling in the world).We did the creepy crawley walk in the rain forest. After there we went to Fortesque Bay near Port Arthur we went on a SPOOKY ghost tour. It was pretty scarey. And we SAW A GHOST.We saw some baby fairy penguins in thier burrows. The Cadbury's chocolate factory was terrible we had to eat chocolate. We stayed in Hobart with people we met at Mt Field ... read more

Although the heat in the centre of Australia was entirely manageable because of the low humidity, it was great to be greeted with cool, fresh air when we arrived in Tasmania. We enjoyed a relaxing night in town (with a real bed) and headed out the next morning toward Strahan on the west coast, stopping along the way for a few bushwalks. Our first stop was at Mount Field National Park - it lured us with advertisements of waterfalls and tall trees, and it did not disappoint. The main attraction was Russell Falls - a three-tiered, beautiful cascading waterfall. We decided to continue along the track up to the top of Russell Falls where we came upon Horseshoe Falls - not as high, but just as pretty with the sun shining off the green moss on ... read more