Tasmania: More hiking

Monday 14.5: We woke up at a decent time to drive to the east coast of Tasmania, to Friendly Beaches. We started with the longest walk of the day. First we climbed some stairs up to a lookout, then down to this smaller beach. It didn´t take long to walk to this another, longer beach. Both of the beaches were beautiful with white sand and long coastlines. We got to walk for a while on the beach before finishing the walk with a part in a forest. The lady at the visitor centre had told us it´d take 5hours to do the walk, but we completed it in around 3hours. It was the same thing with almost all walks, though, both in New Zealand and Tasmania. I guess they time their walks according to some pretty slow walker. Anyways, at the end of our walk this cute little wallaby came up to Denise and ate a piece of bread from her hand. It wasn´t scared at all! We did two shorter walks later that day, just walking to some lookouts. When it started to get dark we drove back to Launceston, to the same hostel. We spent the night watching TV shows and just hanging around...

Carla, I and Denise at the beach

Denise and wallaby

Funny traggic sign: Kangaroo lifting a car

Sunset

Tuesday 15.5: We had a couple of hours time to walk around Lauceston before having to return our car. So we walked to the town centre, where I had a cup of coffee at Glorias Jeans while the others did some souvenir shopping. Then we walked to the harbour, and back to our hostel, after buying cookies from Subway. We had to fill up our car with gas before returning it. Not wanting to put in any more than necessary, we left it quite unfull. So we had to go get some more gas close to the airport, in a small village called Perth :) Returning the car was a bit weird since the company doesn´t have an office at the airport. We were just told to leave the car at the parking lot, put the keys inside and leave the doors open. So that´s what we did before heading to the airport cafe, where we played yazzi and just hung around before our flight. The flight went well, and after taking the train home Carla and I went to Coles to buy some chicken to cook a real dinner! We had been eating only bread and noodels for the whole week...