My first impression of Hobart was "Hey, the Hobart International Airport isn't even international..." - I swear that airport wasn't even as big as the one in Kota Kinabalu. Anyway, driving into the city for the first time was pretty cool. Very watery. My second thought about Hobart was that it seemed like a collaboration of other places e.g. Mornington (VIC), Georgetown (M'sia), Exeter (UK) and imitations of places like Swansea (Portsea), imitation-West-Gate-Bridge, imitation-Southbank, imitation-Great-Ocean-Road (East Coast), imitation-Grampians (Cradle Mountain), imitation-Dandenongs (National Parks). Having said that, their places were pretty unique. I didn't know Tassie had beaches as good as Wineglass Bay:
That was after some 2+ hour hike up the mountain in sandals in 28C heat! Much like Grampians though probably tougher.Or water as clear as Binalong Bay:
Five days was just about enough though there were things we still missed out on that I wouldn't mind going back and doing it.Other random Tasmanian observations:-
- Launceston has a much bigger nicer airport
- Hobart/Launceston = ghost towns at night. No night life.
- Everything is so GREEN and lush
- People on the whole, generally nice and welcoming
- Lots of sightseeing places for such a small state
- So many windy roads that my head still feels it's spinning
- Temperamental weather just like Melb
- Hard to find places to eat
- No sign of the Devil
- Lots of dead wildlife on the roads
- Mother's observation: people don't drive as fast!
- They like their Chickenfeed stores
- Nothing ever looks opened even if they are
Finally, I think this is my favouritest pic from the week (if only the sun came out to play!!). It was just before I slipped about 3x on the slippery LI.CHEN. and for a second I thought I was gonna get dumped in the icy cold water
And now I'm waiting for 6am 26th Nov.
