HONG KONG - MELBOURNE - TASMANIA - BANGKOK - MYANMAR
TASMANIA
TASMAN PENINSULA - LAKE ST CLAIR and CRADLE
MOUNTAIN - LATROBE
AREA - FREYCINET
PENINSULA
HOBART and the TASMAN PENINSULA
After our short stay in Melbourne we met the Segolis at
Melbourne airport and had a bumpy flight to Hobart Tasmania. While
Moran and
Eitan went to rent the cars Maayan and Lotem played among our 10 pieces
of
luggage. We sure know how to travel light!
In Hobart we spent most of the day at the Museum of
Classic and Modern Art. We never saw the classic part and the modern
exhibits
were way beyond me. I did enjoy the building!
It was carved into the side of a rock face which formed part of
the building. Oh yes there was a water
exhibit like at Ben
Gurion airport with words formed from drops of water falling from
above.
Moran, Ant and I went shopping for the coming
days. Our experience with grandchildren is that they need a lot of
snacks:
getting into the car snacks, mid-morning snacks, after an hour snacks,
after another hour snacks,
etc.; we
were well provisioned.
In the evening we drove to the shore front and
had a delicious meal at Salamanca Place. Maayan finished 260 grams of
porterhouse steak and is now aiming for an even larger one.
The next day we drove to Tasman Peninsula where
we enjoyed spectacular views of the coastline below:
Tasman's Arch. Devil's Kitchen, the Blow Hole
and the jagged edges of Raoul Point.
Maayan gave us an interesting overview of Continental Drift and
how
Tasmania was once part of a super continent called Gondwana.
Lotem
read to
us about how certain fossils occur both
in Tasmania and Antarctica pointing to their once being part of the
same land
mass.
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