ORFORD, TASMANIA
Another day, another national park: This morning we drove the short distance from Swansea to Freycinet National Park, located on a peninsula a couple of hours north of Hobart. It’s best known for Wineglass Bay, a perfect crescent-shaped white sand beach that's been voted one of the top ten beaches in the world(!). Getting to it, though, requires an hour-long hike through some fairly demanding rocky terrain. Chris, Eric and I managed it, though, and even had enough energy left over to jump in the freezing-cold water and attempt to body-surf for awhile (until our extremities started to go numb!). It really is a beautiful beach, and its remote location saves it from being spoiled by too many tourists.
On the trail to the beach, we saw several Bennett’s wallabies. The ones here are so used to people feeding them that they’ll hop right up to you and let you pet them, as long as they think you might give them some food. (But apparently they draw the line when you try to see what’s in their pouch, as Eric discovered.)
After visiting the national park, we drove south toward the Tasman Peninsula, where we’ll be visiting tomorrow. We stopped about halfway there at Orford to rent a place for the night, which turned out to be an entire three-bedroom house(!) decked out in groovy orange shag carpet. We walked next door to get some fine takeout pizza, then came back and watched the video of 1492: Conquest of Paradise (a pretty lousy film, considering it's from Ridley Scott, one of my favorite directors).
Another day, another national park: This morning we drove the short distance from Swansea to Freycinet National Park, located on a peninsula a couple of hours north of Hobart. It’s best known for Wineglass Bay, a perfect crescent-shaped white sand beach that's been voted one of the top ten beaches in the world(!). Getting to it, though, requires an hour-long hike through some fairly demanding rocky terrain. Chris, Eric and I managed it, though, and even had enough energy left over to jump in the freezing-cold water and attempt to body-surf for awhile (until our extremities started to go numb!). It really is a beautiful beach, and its remote location saves it from being spoiled by too many tourists.
On the trail to the beach, we saw several Bennett’s wallabies. The ones here are so used to people feeding them that they’ll hop right up to you and let you pet them, as long as they think you might give them some food. (But apparently they draw the line when you try to see what’s in their pouch, as Eric discovered.)
After visiting the national park, we drove south toward the Tasman Peninsula, where we’ll be visiting tomorrow. We stopped about halfway there at Orford to rent a place for the night, which turned out to be an entire three-bedroom house(!) decked out in groovy orange shag carpet. We walked next door to get some fine takeout pizza, then came back and watched the video of 1492: Conquest of Paradise (a pretty lousy film, considering it's from Ridley Scott, one of my favorite directors).
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