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Tasmania Dear All This year it was all points south! A couple of days in Sunny (and was it!) Melbourne and then off around Tasmania! We hope you enjoy our pictures! Sheldon & Rob Rob checking out one of many convict-built bridges. This was our frilly guest house in Swansea. Spectacular views across Coles Bay towards the peninsula. "That View" across to Wineglass Bay (and two fools in the foreground). Wineglass Beach itself (it was a lot colder and windier than it looks!) We stayed in this house, "The Grange" in Campbelltown. It's old, creaky, draughty, marvellous - and haunted, natch. The brave (or daft, depending on how you look at it) can reach Tasmania by ferry - it's about 9 hours from Melbourne or a staggering 14 from Sydney! This picture of the original Spirit of Tasmania was taken in Devonport ... We couldn't have holiday snaps without a lighthouse. This one was at gusty Table Cape outside the lovely township of Wynyard. The Arthur River, taken just before the West goes Wilderness. Turn a corner and all of a sudden the road turns to white dirt, and the horizon expands further than the eye can see. For the next 200kms, it's Wilderness all the way ... ... until you get to Waratah, a tiny mining town in the centre of Tasmaina. Formerly renowned for tin mining (and for having a waterfall in the middle of it), the town is beginning to experience a resurgence due to increasing tourism. It was unspeakably cold - - hence the unusual headgear. We have to admit that the most strenuous walking we undertook was from the car to the lodge for lunch and back again! Queenstown before ... ... and after. Actually the top view is over the mountains on the way out to Strahan from Queenstown. The image directly above is of the scarred "naked" mountains of Queenstown - stripped bare by mining operations. When the new (Indian) owners of the mining rights began an attempt to re-forest the hills, they were met with strenuous resistance from the locals, who sought an injunction and then released thousands of rabbits onto the regenerated areas to "keep the foliage down". Apparently they think that the tourists come to Queenstown to see the decimation. It must be that because it certainly isn't for the hospitality! Yo! Don't drink the water! On the Gordon river during a day-long "heritage" cruise. These images from the beautiful (and deafening) Nelson Falls. The Anglican Church at Richmond. Rob, doing a bit of solitary! The End.