Tasmania looks as amazing as I always imagined. I have wanted to visit since reading a novel at school called “Prelude” about the childhood of Eileen Joyce.
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Tasmania really is a place of beauty.
So much of it is untouched.
A very green Tasmania
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I went to Tassie once, saw a lot of nature
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Queenstown, my birth town, No 1 Steam Engine, my Grandfather operated that engine pre 1960s.
Strahan, my fishing haunt.
Great memories
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I was a steam engine driver too.
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The biggest thing for me on our trip was to see the penguins coming home at night from their day at sea.Hobart is very pleasant,not too big.I would like to go back, to the West Coast particularly,not in the Winter,though. 
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Yes, same here, Penguin Parade on Phillip Island was far inferior.
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I’m never going to have the pleasure of visiting Tasmania. Nor anywhere else for that matter. Luckily, there is pleasing nature to be seen all over the World, even in the small one I’m tied to now. I think appreciating nature is something that grows with age. Lots that would have gone unnoticed in earlier years tends to get more attention as years go by. Not just views but everything to do with the natural World.
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What I fear about Australia are those crocodiles .
We have alligators here but if you are fishing and go near them they take off but as you know crocodiles are different.
We do have crocodiles here but limited and not the monsters of Australia .
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Definitely do not go near the water in crocodile infested waters here in Australia.
You will be tooked for lunch.
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I remember when Steve Irwin was alive and had his show how he loved the one’s he kept at his zoo and how emotional he became when one passed on due to old age .
I suspect they did not feel the same about him .
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Crocs here are limited but not the monsters like by you and from what I hear not nearly as aggressive .
Decades ago until animal regulations you could buy baby Nile crocodiles in some pet stores but do not know anyone who did .
You can still but Caimans not sure if by you
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Don’t get the wrong idea, there are no crocs near me (other than in wildlife parks/zoos), the nearest wild croc is probably 2000km away.
When i first came to Australia in the 1960s, I was staying with a girlfriend’s family in Innisfail in north Queensland. It was the wet season (January) and the creek at the back of the property (a soldier/settler block) had flooded. As I was watching out of the kitchen window a 2 metre saltie swam through the garden it was the first wild croc I ever saw…
To add to the horror her younger brother kept a carpet snake as a pet which roamed the house.
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That croc site must have been some site .
Australian carpet pythons and think other Australian type called children’s python were very popular in the USA and still sold but not like 20 years ago as you know smaller type pythons compared to the Asian / African types .
The carpets are bred in countless color morphs thus the most popular .
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When I had just graduated with my bachelor’s degree, it was my dream to pursue a master’s degree at a university in Tasmania. I can’t recall the name of that university anymore, it was such a long time ago. However, around that time, I fell in love with the man who later became my husband. Since he wanted to study in the United States, I had to change my life plans. Even now, I still think about it. If I ever have the chance, I would definitely love to travel there someday.
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I did do that a couple of times…decades ago. 
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Lol did you ?
Not in a million years would I do that , in fact I wear swim trunks when I shower .
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