Freycinet National park

Some more pics from Tasmania. Wineglass Bay is located in Freycinet National Park and have been voted by various travel authorities as one of the top 10 most beautiful beaches in the world. Along the way up the mountain we encountered a couple of tame wallabies, one of which had a small Joey. Although the views were stunning, it made us realize how beautiful our own beaches are. The 13km hike made us both tired an happy to head out to our next destination: Port Arthur.

Launceston and the North East of Tasmania

This is such a beautiful place. Our reception is not the greatest but I will try to upload some pictures. Tasmania has been such a pleasant surprise so far. Such friendly helpful people and a stunning landscape with rolling green hills and colorful flowers. It reminds me a bit of Ireland with its intense greens and also a bit of Sweden with the flora and fauna and crisp clean air! There are lovely little cafes and restaurants and loads of vineyards. I wish we had more time...

Birthday fun

Little Jayda turned one last weekend and Lauren and Jarvis had organized a birthday party for her at Murray's Brewery. We spent a couple of hours there in very good company before heading back to the Bay where a wine and jazz festival was being held. Good food and very good wine sums it up.

We're now at Newcastle Airport heading to Tasmania for a little holiday. We've been told to expect beautiful nature, good cheese, seafood and wine and cute little towns. Sounds good to me:)

Back again...

It has been a while since Polly "the Possum" had been around. We had always suspected that with her fat belly that she would be due with a new arrival soon. Sure enough 1am in the morning Jo was awoken by a large nosie to our back deck. It was Polly and her new addition "Pippi" as Jo has named her little girl after the Swedish childrens character Pipi Longstockings."

Pippi unsure of the strange good looking Gentleman and plain old Jo...lol just joking JO.

Enjoying a carrot and a strawberry

Quiet weekend

We've been pretty busy lately and have been away a lot, so this past weekend we turned down an invitation to go to Newcastle and stayed around the bay relaxing.  We went down to the beach in Nelson Bay Friday afternoon with the cribbage board, fishing rods, some bubbly and home made crepes. It's easy to forget what a paradise we live in when everyday life takes over.  You have to remind yourselves sometimes to stop for a while and enjoy what you've got. 

I got a 24 hand in cribbage and kicked Wyatt's a**!

The first catch that looks so much bigger than it actually was

Beautiful sunset that came with a dolphin swimming by really close, hard to catch on camera unfortunately

Poop proofing

We love having our beautiful birds around. They provide so much entertainment and some of them are pretty tame. BUT they are extremely messy and poop everywhere. I don't know how many times a week we have to mop the balcony, so we decided to poop proof their little corner where they feed and where most of their pooping occur. I spent the morning scrubbing the floor and cutting and taping garbage bags to the floor to protect is from their mess. The birds don't seem too bother by the change in colour and material to the floor. First one in to feed was our baby lorikeet Patrick (although he's probably an adolescent by now) and Krusty the Cockatoo. Krusty is a bit shy so he flew off when I tried to take a picture of him. I caught him in a nearby tree though waiting for his turn where he's still patiently biding his time.

Road trip

We had a lovely relaxing weekend in Coffs Harbour and Port Maquire on the north coast of NSW last weekend with Quintin, Sal and little Harry.  We stopped in small little places along the way and got to see places we never would have if we ventured out ourselves.  Apart from baby Harry getting a bit impatient travelling in the car, it all went relly smoothly:)

Coffs Harbour

The mountains surrounding Coffs Harbour