Day 10 of our first Tasmania tour, and a much deserved day off...
It's been an eventful ten days, with the island featuring in the news much more than normal: we arrived on the hottest day EVER, with the skies over Hobart filled with smoke as the bushfire season started early, and then yesterday we were juddered awake by a 3.4 magnitude earthquake on the north coast!
But apart from a change of itinerary for our first day, to avoid the 'at risk' Mount Field National Park, we have been unaffected by any of the news-worthy goings on, and everything has gone very smoothly.
Apart from that first day, the weather has actually been very kind to us, and the wildlife has, as ever, been very cooperative!
A clean sweep of Tasmania's 12 endemic birds, a well-timed flowering season (a little later than normal, giving us the chance to catch up with some spring flowering species not normally seen at this time) and some memorable encounters with the mammals, the real stars of the show, culminating in an idyllic evening watching a Platypus cruising up and down the river. And still five days to go!
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