Hooray! The photos are going up! I finally got time to faff with the camera and use Paul's nice fast connection to put some down under photos up - so here's the first (long!) installment. We've more, shorter, collections to come in the next few days, plus some blogs from the girls coming soon, and news of how you can help Lani win money for the disabled group she visited in Kenya.
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Arrival
After a looong flight, we arrived in Sydney with time enough between planes to visit Sydney briefly:
Pine Street
Keith, Teresa, Hannah and Sarah welcomed us into their home in Hobart:
Keith in particular loves the walking that's easily available nearby:
Koonya
Once jet lag was behind us, we headed out to the Tasman peninsula for a couple of days staying in Koonya. More natural beauty than you can shake a stick at:
Port Arthur
We took a detour on our way home from Koonya to visit Port Arthur, the Tasman peninsula's biggest tourist attraction. Transportees to Tasmania, if they didn't keep their noses clean once they were sent here to work as indentured servants for years, would find themselves here. It's not a nice history, and there are some good displays about it - but the place is all pretty ruins and manicured lawns now, so it's hard to imagine how it was ...
Roos and Devils
Port Arthur didn't excite us too much, so we headed back Hobart-wards via a Tasmanian Devil centre - interesting vicious little devils, and very cute kangaroos (and wallabies, and pademelons):
Back to Hobart
Later in the week we explored more of Hobart - cafes, shops, great fish-and-chips on the harbour, and an arts festival at which we met David Johnstone and family from Coventry:
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