Tasmania 2016

We went to Tasmania the end of Sept. until Oct. 5th.  It was such a great trip.  The kids were on their break between 3rd and 4th quarter.  The end of the school year is December 20th.  It is the quickest school year ever when you come halfway though. The next school year begins in February!

Anyway, the beach is a happy place for us and we got some fun beach time.  It is spring here so the warm weather has not arrived yet.  We did have a few nice days and it was warm enough to enjoy the beach (although not warm enough to swim!).  Tasmania is a BEAUTIFUL place.  We really weren't sure what to expect.  We had heard good things and it is defiantly on our list to go back to.  

Look at the beautiful sand on this beach!  Every beach we went to was a little different and fun!

Tassie has tons of wild animals and we went to place called the un-zoo and had a ton of fun.  these kangaroos were super friendly and didn't mind us at all.

Of course we have all heard of the tasmanian devil.  Well, here is the little guy...

He is small and mighty and I would not want to be on his mean side.

We had no set plans and kinda followed the good weather around the island.  When we saw this poster we knew we needed to go on this boat ride.  It did not disappoint!

We got to wear bright red suits and enjoy a nice fast speed boat ride.

The kids LOVED it!!!

It was fun to see the landscape from this direction and really get a sppreciation of the steep cliffs...people rock climb on these things!

We went into a couple of caves and Isaac our pirate loving kid was all about this!

Isabella was a fan of the speed!

We got to see lots of cool sealife...dolphins, seals, a Great White Sea Eagle and even a whale!

The highlight for the kids was also having a motorhome and camping out for a week!

We were by no means roughing it with this brand new beauty.  It was a great adventure for all.

There were a ton of things to do on the island and this was us after a hike up to the wine glass bay overlook.

Look at this cute wallaby we saw at the top.

Sweet Isabella and more of a view of wine glass bay.

By far the highlight of the trip was this!!!!  We couldn't take any pictures of the cuddly little things but it was a fun experience!  Isaac learned about these blue penguins last year and you all know he has been so excited to see them....we may have gotten a "best day ever" out of him!

We are trying to get a little better about updating although October wasn't good for us.  We have some other fun things to share from October (it was a BUSY month) so we hope to get a few more posts up!!