Hobart, June 2008 – Day 3

Attempted to drag Jason out of bed to go to Port Arthur nice and early – struggled a little. So we ended up at a bakery in Dunally (Duneely?!) for another pie (mine was a bit cold :( ) Then proceeded on to Port Arthur checking out the Tesselated Pavement, Blowhole, Devil’s Kitchen and a couple of lookouts on the way.

At Port Arthur we wandered around the little museum thing they had. I think my card led me to be a boat maker – and Jase’s card led him to be a whipping man! We did the walking tour – which was good although the rain started up a little during our tour (sheltered the camera!!). We then went on a boat cruise where I failed to be able to open the door to walk out the front (the tour person was nice and came and opened it!) So I took lots of photos of the isle of the dead, and point peur (the boys prison island). Bought a souvenir stubby holder and one for Jase!

We then hit the road again and stopped in at the Tassie Devil Conservation Park. I wasn’t expecting much which was just as well.. but still paid the small fortune to go in there. Point of Interest #1 was boards of information posters – yawn.. #2 was a video about the tasmanian tiger (and by this point I wanted to see a live animal!) Thankfully #3 and #4 were tassie devils!! Took a few blurry shots.. and moved on – then decided to switch my lense over to my VR lense and took some zoomed in shots of kangaroos and wallabies, got a cool shot of a eagle.. and then back to the tassie devils. Bought some souvenir stubby holders and a tassie devil toy – and headed back to Hobart!

Unfortunately on the way back had mega slow people on the road (it hadn’t been too bad on the way to Port Arthur with people pulling over!!). Lined up dinner with grahame – on a misson to find steak! Decided to pass on the ball and chain grill (or something similar) – and headed to Henrys which was near the pier but away from Salamanca Square. Henrys had an interesting atmosphere – live piano (which made hearing conversation a little difficult) followed by techno cds. For dinner I had the steak (as did Grahame) with steamed vegies – he had the Caesar salad (although it had a much more swisho name than that). Jase had the lamb shoulder and vegies too. For dessert we all waited the 20 minutes for the chocolate pudding + orange sorbet. Yumm!!!! I think we got the Bass Block I (2004) Pinot Noir. I then had a baileys to finish off.

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