Ellen's Australian Adventure: Tasmania
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I flew into Launceston, Tasmania Wednesday afternoon January 26th
and Dirk Flinthart met me at the airport with his sons Perran and
Tellayn.
Natalie, Dirkšs wife, was on the mainland for a conference
(shešs a country doctor near where they live) for a day or two so things
were a bit hectic
back at the household. They have a house that they're expanding and 50
acres.
And lots of Huntsman spiders, of which I did not take photos.
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Dirk & Perran
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Dirk, Perran & Talleyn
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Perran
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Tenzin
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The weather was unusually warm for Tassie the first two days I was
there. It was too hot to go blueberry picking on Thursday as we had
planned, so we went
trout fishing in a river instead. Got not a bite all the way up the
river,
so after two hours we went to the trout farm and fished there. I caught
two nice
trout and Dirk caught one. He cooked them for dinner.
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Ellen and her trout
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Tasmanian Sunsets
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We went to a street market and I bought lots of
stuff and Dirk bought a bunch of stuff, too, although not as much as I). On the way back to
the car we passed a bunch of walls that were
obviously the only things left of an old graveyard in downtown
Hobart. |
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Friday we went blueberry picking. It was hot, but not as hot as Thursday.
Saturday Dirk and went to Hobart for the day to meet Tansy Roberts, her husband, Andrew Finch, and their new baby.
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Ellen picking blueberries
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Andrew Finch & Aurelia
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Aurelia Iris Finch
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Tansy Roberts
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And then, on the way back home we stopped at an animal park and this is what we saw...
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Ellen feeds an emu
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The emu |
A wallaby
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A wallaby close up
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For those who want to know what
Tasmanian Devils looks like, here they are... Also a rare goose and and echidna. |
A Tasmanian Devil
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...and another.
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An echidna
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The rare goose |
Some of the storm clouds that brought in cooler weather...
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