Tasmania

It has been a long time without a post - which probably makes me a terrible blogger - but there has been a series of events which has definitely kept me busy!!

At the end of January, 3 girls from Church and I went on a holiday down to Tasmania.  We spent a couple of fantastic days down in Hobart staying at Lilly's Grandparent's house.  It was such a pretty setting and we got to do heaps of fantastic things.  We visited Port Arthur, picked some berries, went to the beach, spent some time around Hobart and did heaps of driving.

The last couple of days were spent up in Launceston.  I was part of a conference for the Presbyterian Church up there, so I spent a couple of days in the Church training local youth leaders with a team from Melbourne.  We had a fantastic time chatting about the Bible and the way we base our youth ministry on Jesus' ministry.

It really was a fabulous time - see pictures below


We spent one day in Port Arthur and went out on a boat ride around the harbor.  It was freezing and windy (hence the curly hair!!)

It was a love time though - a really peaceful place in a beautiful setting with lots of history!!

I really enjoyed it!

 This is our trusty vehicle, generously lent to us by the Overtons.  We were all pretty excited to be driving around in such a hard-core machine.  The phrase 'Don't mind my bullbar' was used a few times when we were trying to park in the city!!

Love that car!

 This was our first day there.  After driving for about 3 hours in the hot weather, we were all a bit tired and grumpy.  We only managed to survive with the good company and the sweet tunes of Taylor Swift.

Once we got to the Bay of Fires it was definitely well worth it.  The water was the coldest water I'd ever swam in, but it was just what we needed!  The scenery was fantastic, the sand was white and squeaky, and the water was amazing!

One morning we had really wanted to go berry picking, but found out the price and decided it was just a little outside our price range.  Instead we did some touring along the coast.

I happened to find some blackberry bushes with heaps of berries left on them.  We had a great time picking our own berries and eating them!

We even enjoyed some blackberry icecream not too far away - the perfect berry experience!

While we were in Tassie, we enjoyed reading the local newspaper 'The Mercury'.  The truth is, we didn't exactly read it - we always skipped to the crossword.  There was a great crossword in it that was half cryptic and half straight.  We found out that we were quite talented at it.

Here's me in a little cafe in Hobard enjoying my latte and cryptic crossword!

(Not pretentious at all!!)

On our way back to Launceston we spent some time in Campbell Town.  This town is right in the middle of Tas and is where two main roads meet.  So it seemed to be the perfect rest stop when travelling.