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10:45 am - Friday, December 29, 2006

Was good. It was really pretty and cool and it was good to spend time with the family. The car we hired was really wide too, so that was excellent - all 3 of us could fit snugly shoulder to shoulder in the back seat - unlike the Audi A3 even just on the way back from the airport, via dinner, we were jostling for space!

We arrived in Hobart on Friday evening and found our place of accomodation. It was 2 bedroom unit with a small balcony that looked over the harbour. Niiiiiccceee.


(Docks hidden, to your left in the picture.)

Near Hobart airport there was a fruit picking farm! You just go in, eat all you like, and pick and pay for only what you want to take away! When you're sick of boysenberries you head to the cherry trees... And when you're sick of cherries head to the apricots! Unfortunately the strawberries and raspberries weren't quite ripe, so we didn't get to eat many of them...

After going on a little walk to see the oh-so-pretty Russell falls

we saw a echidna wandering around the carpark.

*waddle waddle waddle* oooh, so cute!

On the second last day we went up Mt Wellington. Driving to the top we had to go really slowly - we were in cloud and couldn't see further than 10 metres in any direction! Once upon the top the view was no better (eheh) though supposedly on a nice day you can see for ages... Hey, why can ages be used in a space sense? Or is it just my bad grammer? :P.
That evening at 9:50 we saw the first yacht come in from our balcony... Later on, at 2:30am, just as going to sleep became more favourable than watching the funkitoid anime Cowboy Bebop (that Liam bought Ben for Christmas) we saw another one come in...

On the final day we walked about the downtown harbour area and saw Yendys come in at 4th place before lunching and heading to the fruit farm for a second visit as a detour on the way to the airport!

Up, up, up and away!!

5 Bludgers' annotations:

Blogger Minerva said...

Cutest widdle echidna! Dawwww!!!!

- 29/1/07 5:56 pm
Blogger Alicia said...

It was so soft, with only a couple of hardened spikes... When you come to my house you should see the video *is too lazy to upload on utube*.

- 30/1/07 8:38 am
Blogger Minerva said...

Yea yea, I've seen it before, remember when you loaded it up onto my computer coz yours wasn't working for some Work communication/relations thing

- 30/1/07 5:55 pm
Blogger Matthew Moffitt said...

Wow, the waterful looks beautiful

- 31/1/07 10:49 am
Blogger Catie said...

that is one adorable echidna... and i like the sound of that fruit-picking place! remind me of it if I ever go to Tasmania :)

- 1/2/07 10:42 pm


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Make Japanese friends, with whom I can practice my Japanese and work in Osaka.

MID/END JULY

Extend Working Holiday Visa

JULY/AUGUST

Meet up with Tokyo friends to climb Fuji!

MID/END SEPTEMBER

WEEK 1:Make my way up to Tokyo.

WEEK 2:Explore a little of northern Honshu.

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Evening Qantas flight to arrive 27th AM.

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Start full time work with TTW. Find a pad in Harbord area so I can surf it up before work.

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