TASMANIA!

Tasmania. What could I possible say about Tasmania to do it justice? It is simply beautiful. Tasmania is a not-too-little island located off the Southern Coast of Australia, straight down the Bass Straight from Melbourne. It is its own state, and is the place where the population of Australia began as its isolation attracted the location for many prisons to be built for English convicts.

Tasmania is very different from the rest of Australia. It's geography is supposedly a combination between England and New Zealand, although I wouldn't know since I've been to neither. We splurged a bit during this leg of the trip and decided to go on a 3-day tour throughout the "wild" west coast of Tasmania. Could possibly be the best part of Australia, in my opinion.

On the tour, we went on a lot of hikes. We toured many waterfalls and temperation rainforests. We also got to play on some sand dunes for awhile, which was fun, but... didn't compare to Namibia. We also went on a 4-hr. hike around Cradle Mtn. Unfortunately it was a bit cloudy up there, but still beautiful nonetheless.

One of the best part of the tour was getting to know all the random people in our group. We had people from Switzerland, Slovokia, Germany, Denmark, Japan, England, etc. I felt pretty uneducated to only know how to speak Enligh, as the perfect English spoken by most of our tourmates was their second, or ever third language.

I don't know what else to say about Tasmania, because words just can't do it justice. Look at the pictures, and you will begin to understand! :)