Tasmania!

Tasmania was absolutely incredible. Stunning. We left after one week wishing that we could have spent 3 more on that beautiful island. It was so wild and unpopulated and so incredibly gorgeous. We resolvedthat if we were to do our Antarctic adventure again,we would skip New Zealand and go straight to Tasmania after our work contract was finished. The island is teaming with wildlife; wallabies, wombats, Devils, kangaroos and possums. We saw plenty of them roaming around...and even more on the sides of the roads,victims of nighttime automobile encounters. We ate the freshest, most delicious oysters, drank fantastic wine, ate produce picked only hours before and saw very few humans. We spent most of our days hiking and camping...and eating. The Tasmanian Devils, the island's local heros, are fairly rare and nocturnal to boot, so we had to visit an animal park to see some. The park we visited had some in captivity that we were fortunate enough to pet, as well as wombats, koalas and a large, and very tame, red kangaroo.