Australia Trip: Day 9 (17 Jan 08) - 2nd Day in Launceston

Day 9 - 17 January 2008 (Thursday) 2nd Day in Launceston
Platypus House - Batman Bridge - Low Head Lighthouse - Low Head Penguin Tour - Low Head Tourist Park

The Platypus House

The Seahorse World

The Platypus

The Souvenir Shop inside the Platypus House

The Batman Bridge

Beautiful Pier near Low Head

The Low Head Tourist Park

Our Cottage in the Park

The Light House

Our quick dinner before going to the Penguin Tour

It's already 21:00 and we're waiting for the start of the Penguin Tour

We can watch & follow the penguin closely

We could not use flash to take any photo cos the flash is harmful to the eyes of the penguin

We checked out at Rosevears and then we continued to drive to Low Head. 

On the way, we've visited the Platypus World and we all have a lot of fun there.  First of all, we afraid that tour was so boring and just can see the platypus swimming in a big tank.  However, we were wrong!  Though it was call Platypus World, we can see Echidnas also!  The echidnas were so cute and walk around us to smell our foot.  We've never seen such animals in HK.

Afterward, we passed-by the Batman Bridge to Low Head. We stayed at the 2 bedrooms cottage in Low Head Tourist Park. At night at around 21:00, we've the Penguin Tour. The little penguin were so cute and it's so amazing to see the little penguin in such a close distance.

Australia Trip: Day 8 (16 Jan 08) - Hobart to Launceston

Day 8 - 16 January 2008 (Wednesday) From Hobart to Launceston
Cadbury Factory (Hobart) - Ross Town - Perth Town - Rosevears Vineyard Retreat (Launceston)

This is our breakfast: Congee

The Cadbury Chocolate Factory

The Ross Town

Perth?? Just Perth Town in Tasmania

On the way to Rosevears Vineyard Retreat, our apartment

The Rosevears Vineyard Retreat

The Vineyard in front of our apartment

The Suite

Our bedroom, overlooking the vineyard

The bacony with BBQ facility

BBQ at night

After the breakfast in the apartment, we have our last tour in Hobart and it was the Cadbury Factory Tour. The tour is quite informative and it costed AUD$15@.  The tour took around 1.5 hours and we've proceeded to different stages in making the chocolate.  From filling the mold to packaging. 

After the factory tour, we continued to drive to Launceston. On the way, we've visited the Ross Town.  Ross is an historic town in the Midlands of the state of Tasmania in Australia. Situated on the Macquarie River, Ross is located 78 km south of Launceston and 117 km north of Hobart. The town is listed on the Register of the National Estate and is noted for its historic bridge, original sandstone buildings and convict history.  In such wonderful historic place, we have our lunch (picnic) there.

Afterward, we continued our journey to Launceston.  We've stayed at Rosevears Retreat at Rosevear on 16 Jan 2008. This apartment was inside a vineyard and the view was fantastic at day time.  At that night, we've bought something in supermarket and have a BBQ dinner.  It was a fantastic experience that we could have BBQ when having a traveling trip.

Australia Trip: Day 7 (15 Jan 08) - 3rd Day in Hobart

Day 7 - 15 January 2008 (Tuesday) 3rd Day in Hobart
K&D Warehouse - Sorell Fruit Farm - Beach (Forgot the name of it) - Tasmania Devil Conservation Park

Our Breakfast

The K&D Warehouse, we've bought many BBQ equipment here

On the way to Sorell Fruit Farm

The Sorell Fruit Farm

The Cherries are in great harvest

We only have spent AUD$24 (around HK$170) to have fun in the farm & got all these

A beautiful beach (I've forgot the name of it)

We got lots of fun in the beach

The Tasmania Devil Conservation Park

The Kangaroo inside the Park

Our dinner

Homemade potato mesh

The cherries we picked today

Today we woke up early and we've went to the large household warehouse to do some shopping. 

Afterward, the first mission of the day was to attack the fresh cherries in Sorell Fruit Farm. The cherries were in great harvest. All you needed to do is to pay AUD$6 first and got a plastic box. Then you could enjoy your day in filling up the box with cherries and other fruits! Of course, we all filled up our stomach first before we filled up our boxes! That was so amazing for you to get your own fruits in a fruit farm!

On the way to our next stop, we have stopped by a wonderful beach (Maybe the Marion Bay or Boomer Bay, just forgot the name). The sands were fine and the sky was so blue. We couldn't stop ourselves to run into the sea! We've lots of fun in this beach though the time was not long.

The next stop of the day was to go to the Tasmania Devil Park to meet with the devils! The Tasmania Devils could only found in Tasmania and they are dangerous cause they are violent to other creatures. However, they're so cute by just looking at their outlook. In the park, we've also seen the Kangaroos. The kangaroos are so lazy but they're funny! We tried to feed them with grasses and leaves.

At the end of the day, we bought somethings in the supermarket and prepare the dinner by myself. Of course, we've the cherries as our dessert after dinner!