We stayed at the Grand Chancellor Hotel on the wharf in Hobart. Magnificent place that we would highly recommend and will stay at again if we get this way. The views were superb, the staff friendly and very helpful and the breakfast was one of the best I've ever had.
The breakfast was a buffet. Everything on it was high end and interesting. Cheri got and egg white omelette with HOT peppers, tomatoes and mushrooms with a smoky flavor - sublime! Right next to the chef station was a fresh honeycomb. It looked so interesting that both she and John tried it. Cheri generally doesn't like honey (as most Tiggers do not!), but this, oh my, it was nectar of the gods!! Sweet, subtle, and addicting! The coffee was
Clearly, well fed, we headed off to the Tasman Peninsula for more scenery and another hike.
The Tasman Peninsula is another great national park with nice coastal scenery and walking tracks. On the way we stopped at a place were the tide was low to catch some reflections and bird shots. A man was hauling out a giant squid. Turns out they leg their eggs and then head to sea to die, but the portal to the sea has been closed for hundreds of years. The squid seem to still be programmed to go that way, so they die in the cove. Another group was there to buy it for dinner.
We hiked to Waterfall Bay and enjoyed the scenery. It was warm enough that Cheri zipped off her legs! After the hike we stopped in Doo town for some local seafood from a van. Popular spot!
We then headed towards Port Arthur and on the way found a Tasmanian Devil conservation center. We'd been looking for devils in the wild, but because the cancer has taken 90% of them, we had had no luck. This was our last chance to see the devils and oh what sightings we had!! They fed them as we entered the place and we learned alot about them as well as got to shot them! We went to a second enclosure and there were two more devils. They were quite active and the light was even better for shooting!
After they fed the Tasmanian Devils, they fed kangaroos & wallabies & pademelons! In fact, we got to feed them too! And to touch them - so of course, as I am sure you can imagine the big kid in the group was right in there with all the little kids feeding and petting!! Kangaroos are very soft and like their stomachs scratched.
From there we went to the bird show. They had several cockatoos and two frog mouths. We had never seen a frog mouth before, what a bird!!
Enjoy!
Cheri & John
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