TASSI second Tasmania 21st - 28.03.
Our driver Anna has agreed through the twilight to go to Ross, since in the vicinity of national parks was not a campsite with shower. And we needed. Urgent! Now, yes everyone knows that driving in Australia in the dark not at all is safe. Our camper was large and massive enough that we have made our own because of damage not really mind. Fear before we had a possum, a wallaby, a wombat, a Tasmanian devil, a kangaroo, rats, mice, or otherwise which Gevieh to go dead. Even the giant moth, which are smashed against the windshield and have left nasty yellow stains, I found something threatening. Once something is so large that it Makes noise when you drive over it, can I not agree more with my conscience. Hanna and I were so ne hour totally cramped in the passenger seats and were shaking. Anna was left. Do not know, sies has brought as ready to maintain with all the fleeing from the street and the flashing eyes Wallabies in the spotlight at the roadside this indifference and stubborn to continue driving 80km / h. We always thought they could not fly to suffer what to do ... "I'm always ready to brake," she said. Haha.
That willingness is not all even, it has no less than a small gray spot on the track turned out not as a stone, but as a baby wombat. Emergency braking. Screeching tires. I thought, I can never be happy again.
"If we went about it?" I ask. And tell the other two, no. I would have thought, even if it would not have been true, so I wished that the little fluff balls alive. The first Wombat, I see in Australia, we go right to the ground. Ne would be good odds, right?
After we all got out to check the situation, we have the Skein see hopping but behind his mother in the bushes. THANK GOD. I would have never forgiven the Anna. From then on she was then also has much more cautious and quiet blood can pass from the Australian cars. Their motto is well known, "Is anyway enough of the beasts.". How cruel can one be?
Anyway, we are safe and then Mordlos arrived in Ross and were finally able to shower again and cooked of course we have yet! And it was super tasty as always. Somehow always taste pasta with tomato sauce especially well if they are prepared to NEM gammligen gas stove in the wilderness. I do not understand why promises.
started to drizzle any case, hats, and later on the morning it poured. Super duper happy we were there! We had like to just take a piece from Ross to Lance, the nearest large city in Tasmania, we wanted to see more detail and until we arrived, the rain was behind us and the sun shone again. Unfortunately, in Tasmania there is indeed something like Central European weather, ie Sun = warm = cool clouds. Therefore, it was the whole trip about an eternal Pull off and on, back off and tighten up jackets, scarves and hats ... annoying, but she is also very familiar and it also somehow beautiful, haha!
We have only filled in Coles again our supplies: water, Cheesels, cookies and pasta with tomato sauce. Then we have gone off to check out the city. Well, more less the city because we were on a nature-parks-and sightseeing Tripp. Therefore, we went to / the / the Gorge. A kind Fijord outside the city. Very nice and friendly there. Only wanted to go as more sophisticated side with the viewpoints, but then had our Sore muscles and give kleinbei are only comfortable on the paved walking trail along the river meandered. Unfortunately, this was the page that was just the shadows, damn it! Well, the rocks did to quickly and formed a round basin, where we go from the walk are gekraxelt over the black stones and have basked on it. Lovely!
On the way back we walked through a piece of wood that me immensely to recalled at home. As in a European mixed forest gabs there chestnuts (!) And beech and birch and oak ... It smelled of earth and not on sand and it was pleasantly cool. How much I had missed the first I've noticed there. The sight of "normal" trees is incredibly soothing. Anna, who is indeed from the Black Forest, has got total, and was a single smile for the rest of the day, which can have but also anxious that we got an unexpected visitor; D
On the way to Devonport another city that we wanted to look at, well known for its port, because from here, all trade in the mainland is being driven, I got a call. Marvin, one of the boys from Mildura, which is grown really fond of me, called to the "Spirit of Tasmania" from. Crazy. Half, whole crew from Mildura is reflected in Tasmania!
Marvin wanted to know carefully, whether he in our camper for the night could still find a place. Now, our Ranger was indeed designed for 2 people, 3 are in it zuglassen ... but 4 also triggered. Go on! We're young and backpacker at that. We must stick together, and our demands on space and accommodation are something of minimal, as long as we have a roof above the head have been ok songwriter. We therefore have
Marvin picked up from the ferry (a MONSTER of ship) and then are out of the city along the northern coast on the way to new adventures. Our sleeping place was beautiful that night. We parked in a clearing and it made us comfortably after dinner on the camper roof. I've seen shooting stars Venus and 3984. The sky was so full of stars that I could never capture the whole sky at a glance. Made me almost crazy! It was so magical! Beside us hats from time to time in the bushes rustled and somewhere in the distance has a dingo / dog / wolf / devil cry ... We girls had panic. Then we rolled into bed and for the first time I've felt myself perfectly safe and soundly sleeping, no sooner had I closed my eyes. Makes a difference when a man is. I want to always deny, but it just is. Their presence is reassuring.
Next morning it rained. So have breakfast in the camper again: ungetoastetes toast, they gripe here, "bread", mixed with peanut butter, jam, cheese or guacamole (you, as we had once done something!) Or everything. Should be well maintained Marvin. Who asked us whether he up to Stanley can drive. Sure, we said. And while he and Anna have left out the front over South and East Germany (he is from Berlin), Hanna and I have slept on the back of it. A camper is already a great thing \u0026lt;3
In Rockey Cape National Park, we walked back again. Here I have for the first time understood why people say that Tasmania is a bit like New Zealand. For this broad, green hills that serve as little place in Ireland, exactly as what I had imagined in New Zealand forever. Only all the sheep were missing, because it is. Fittingly, at least it was windy and cold and I just love the to run coast when it storms! The clouds are passing by so fast and the air is just CLEAR. Did you know that Tasmania has the cleanest air in the world? Yes, this is fact. We are the hills hochgestapft, I had my steel toe shoes, which I had once bought for work. Beautifully decorated with flowers, I have to, haha (now totally remind me of you, Lara, I do not know why \u0026lt;3)!
After the tour we continue on to Stanley. We were hungry and the Lonely Planet (alleged top guide, the few that have ever use it because it's just too heavy and bums around somewhere at the bottom of the back pack in front of him, if a book can bum!) Has tell us that it is delicious in Stanley, are cheap fish. That this "city" is a fishing village, of course we did not once again. But our expectations concerning the fish were not disappointed. It was DELICIOUS! Stanley is also famous for its "Tasmania Uluru" they "groove" . Call But the mountain has in common with the real Uluru only the form, nothing else. It would have been able to Platto up, but we were too lazy and wanted to find a place to sleep. It dawned up yet again and another night ride almost dead animals, we wanted to do that to us.
The Cradle Mountain National Park to stand for the next morning! As it is just as Marvin was still with us. So four of us packed thick, for it was rain predicted for the afternoon, and are in the mountains. I only say: "The Lord of the Rings. Since the film was shot in New Zealand and the Tasmanian landscape in places, very reminiscent of New Zealand, as I have already mentioned, it was really hard not to be expected that wild Hobbits pops out behind a bush.
The road was nice, but as I said, bit uncomfortable because of the wet ... so we were peeved at the end of the trip everyone. Orcs least, we have (fortunately) not seen it, although I would have had nothing against a few elves. Hanna and I have an epic "I grab my backpack and I will carry away" game played. That was SO good! Overall we are pretty
gone through the Wombat Pool up to the Lookout on the Crater Lake, then down to Crater case, and finally back through the meadows to Hobbiton, hihi.
were on the way back, Hanna and Anna are on a bridge to photos to make. In the distance I saw the object of desire, a gray, fluffy Wombat, bold and motionless, except for the little mouth chewing ... SO cute! Na, and certainly I say to the girls: "Ooooh, fully cute!" And say: "What want?" And I say: "Huh, it does not photograph the Wombat?" What fürn Wombat? "And suddenly from the rest and take pictures as the wild the same place, they just snapped already had. Except that this time was in focus and not on the Wombat ... a stone. Marvin was equally delighted. They just as lovely in itself, the fat, fluffy critters. And I've first seen him; D and how it is when one has discovered a time, suddenly everywhere that! Until we were back at the camper we have identified for at least 10 others. Gray areas between the hills, half hidden in their burrows, or quite brazenly in the middle of the meadow. Why we had not seen on the way out? I was so lucky to have other people have also noted: "You see the Wombat over there, sweet, right?" "WHAT? WHERE? "Hach, I love it when I first discovered what!
Our stop for the night was to celebrate the day once again a campsite. We have ate and told us horror stories (that was disinclined). Nevertheless, I slept quietly.
For the next day, our last day, was the Lake St. Clair National Park planned. Marvin, who had even the pleasure of climbing up Mount Amos was not joined in, here on the Mount Rufus. Anna has gone with him, Hanna and I were too lazy. We are just the short walk to Platypus Bay and have gone down there to the lake. It was wonderful! The first hour or so we are simply just sat there, enjoying the sights and chatting. No one but us was there. It is only a very small beach, but the lake is huge - the lowest in Australia - Surrounded by green mountains, as the Faakersee in Austria! But on the Lake St. Clair may tretbooteln you not because of the platypus, that is the platypus. I do not know if platypus is the German translation, or whether there is a difference between the two species ... at least we have seen so no way, even though we have kept to the lookout, so they were not interesting. We have seen what else was wenger cute, but very elegant.
Over time, we popped the sun quite nicely on our head and we wanted to cool us, so be careful keyed into the water pure. But Unfortunately, this was again so cold that it is only for one time immersion, and has again passed out. After all, we were refreshed! The rest of the time we spent playing cards. It was evening and the sun made a move to dive behind the trees, so it was really cold in the shade. So we are long with our towels on the beach, always a little further, gerobbt follow the sun until it was the only way out on the stones. Cool, we thought to have intended to warm the day and have crawled over the black rocks. On the idea but are other creatures come ....................
first thought I black, long thing for a stick. Then I saw the snake. In a way, very nice, how she shone in the sun as if it is wet. Nevertheless, we have seen her immediately - which is fatal. Absolutely. Fled we act together our things again, and are cut off. After 2 minutes, then we are collecting break with drawn on game cameras. taking pictures of the snake itself was okay. The animal did not move, apart from the leather-like, red tongue, which shot now and then flashed out from between the teeth, you know, the snake-standard indicated. Very very disgusting! So it seemed at any rate harmless pictures of us to do with the snake. But for more than a picture hath not passed, then suddenly says Hanna, "IH, which is looking at me!" And then the monster still moving. Slowly, as though the battery is charged or not. Well, now creeping back over the stones in the forest, and we thought we shudder before the return trip, but then ... we saw the snake into the water and at one time the creature was swift and disappeared in the depths of the lake. Hanna and I are looking at us, eyes big as plates: Fucking Hell, in the water we just swam yet.
We overcame so unspeakable disgust, that we immediately packed up and are cut off. First we were "IH, a snake," then we were "WOW, a snake," and then "IH, a snake!" Until we were back at the camper and the other, their migration had survived intact, we envied our discovery. Since then threw something like "HAHA, we have seen ne snake and nihicht ihihr!"
After our last common Camper meal - pasta with tomato sauce and tuna! - We are still a bit back towards Hobart down because the next morning we make our good ranger would have wanted and not get up too early. To sleep, we then looked at the still ultra horror film "Pan's Labyrinth", with the most disgusting monster that has ever sprung from the human imagination! Nevertheless, I slept well. The last night in the camper ... somehow We were sad. How much you can connect a car to the heart, incredible. He had his Stratschwierigkeiten, but otherwise he has served really true. Overall, we are 1600km and crossed the island, have seen a whole lot and had an incredible time! Thanks girls (and Marvin, D)!
am, I first come in Hobart for two days, something to rest. Where it will take me next, I do not know. Would work but once again not bad, haha. My money is frittered Mildura again. I admit I have a beautiful new bag and a cool ring made to the Salamanca Market in Hobart at the harbor here. I have plenty of beautiful nails now, Mum and Dad having seen in the webcam that can testify. Since I can now also wear nice rings, haha! That's what I deserve.
I kiss and embrace you with love!
your
Julchen
