2011 - H & A WORLD CRUISE - TASMANIA

THE TASMAN SEA WAS NOT IN THE LEAST BIT ROUGH. A VERY SMOOTH RIDE.

NOT QUITE THIS SMOOTH

NOW ARRIVED IN HOBART FOR A RIDE OUT TO THE TAHUNE AIR WALK WHERE WE TAKE A STROLL THROUGH THE TREE TOPS.

THIS IS LORRAINE FROM MY DINING TABLE.

MY FIRST EVENING MEAL ON BOARD, I WAS SEATED AT A TABLE FOR EIGHT OR TEN.
HALF AN HOUR LATER & NOBODY ELSE HAD TURNED UP.

H & A HAD ME SEATED ON A HUGE TABLE, ON MY OWN. I WAS GOING TO BE ON THIS BOAT FOR 2 MONTHS.

I AM OK ON MY OWN USUALLY, BUT THIS IS RIDICULOUS.

LORRAINE WAS SEATED WITH 4 OTHER PEOPLE AT A WINDOW TABLE NOT FAR AWAY. HER COUSIN, SANDY TOLD ME TO GO SIT WITH THEM & THAT I DID - FOR THE NEXT MONTH.

I WAS NOT TOO IMPRESSED WITH H & A - THEY'D HAD A MONTH TO SORT THIS OUT BEFORE I EVEN GOT ON BOARD.

ANYWAY - THAT'S LORRAINE, THE LITTLE DARLING - NEEDING A STEP LADDER.

AND IT'S ON TO THE DEVILS VIA THE HUON VALLEY. VERY PICTURESQUE...

THOSE CUDDLY LITTLE DEVILS..

THESE TWO GIRLS ARE STAFF - THEY GET TO ESCORT A BUS LOAD OF PASSENGERS. NICE WORK IF YOU CAN GET IT...

THIS IS A SHOW WHERE A PERSON IN THE CROWD HOLDS UP A COIN. THE BIRD FLIES FROM IT'S HANDLER, TAKES THE COIN BACK TO HIS MASTER.

A GOOD CASH CROP, BUT THEN THE BIRD TAKES THE MONEY BACK...

AND THERE IS THAT DARNED MARTHA AGAIN...

THIS POOR SOUL HAS ONLY ONE WING.....

and a quick flit round the Port Arthur Penal place

before its back on the ship and off to Sydney

We drop off the pilot & the Captain announces we have time to look at Cape Raul.

A very strange rock formation. A bit like the columns at Giants Causeway in Ireland.

He stopped the ship & then spun it around so the people on the other side could see. Very Costa Concordia but without the drama.