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Waking up with Cape Tourville

apetri16 — Mon, 17 Dec 2012 22:50:00 +0000

Sometimes as travelers, you can tend to think that once you’ve seen one sunrise or sunset, you’ve seen them all. The will to wake up at 5 a.m. for a sunrise might diminish after seeing some of the most renowned sunrises around the world, but for me that is always that pang of guilt (re: […]

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Feeling Free in Freycinet National Park

apetri16 — Mon, 17 Dec 2012 00:40:00 +0000

Port Arthur had had us spinning toward our next destination, Coles Bay/Freycinet National Park. It was only about a three hour trip, and we were pumping with energy from what turned out to be an awesome morning.We made the drive down to Freycinet at around 5 PM after making a small pit stop to check […]

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Tasman National Park: Dolphins, Killer Whales and Cliffs

apetri16 — Wed, 12 Dec 2012 23:22:00 +0000

The morning was glittering with sunlight – always a promising start for a day planned out on the water. Dane and I had booked a boat cruise with Tasman Island Tours, which runs a three hour ecocruise along the Tasman National Park in Southern Tasmania, and it was a spectacularly done trip. (Those of you […]

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History and Beauty in Hobart and Port Arthur

apetri16 — Tue, 11 Dec 2012 11:20:00 +0000

As I said in my first post, Tasmania appears to be much bigger before arrival; however, once you’re there, it’s a quick and easy drive to get from one end of is the island to the other. We were lucky enough – or should I say I was lucky enough – to go on this […]

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Climbing the Nut in Stanley

apetri16 — Sat, 08 Dec 2012 06:41:00 +0000

We arrived on a misty morning with no direction and no motivational compass. We tossed up the idea of heading to a National Park and doing a hike, but we decided against it once we realized that an arvo (re:afternoon) nap was high on our list of things to do. We sat at breakfast, and […]

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Surprises and seals in stunning Stanley Tasmania

apetri16 — Fri, 07 Dec 2012 23:39:00 +0000

Our second morning in Stanley, Tasmania was unlike anything I could have imagined it would be. Having just gone on a whim, we didn’t really have any crazy high expectations of what to see or experience, but just one hour out on a small fishing boat made started our day off right. We had met […]

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Eight Things I learned about Tasmania

apetri16 — Thu, 06 Dec 2012 02:17:00 +0000

We made it, there and back, safe and sound and on an extremely elated travel high. (I started Googling flights to Vanuatu, an island in the Pacific, Philippines, New Zealand and Sri Lanka just as we were boarding the ferry to return home.) I get my journalistic curiosity from my father, who is very interested […]

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The Spirit of Tasmania post-Thanksgiving

apetri16 — Mon, 26 Nov 2012 02:04:00 +0000

Despite my food-hangover, Dane and I left early Friday morning to get on the road and head down to a suburb of Melbourne, where we’d catch the “ferry” over to Tasmania. Now, I’ve experienced a bit of culture shock in the past couple of months living here, but nothing too drastic. When I say I […]

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