We did a guided tour through the Marakoopa Cave. It is very much a wet cave with streams running through it. It was unusual to here the running water instead of the quite of other caves.

I managed to get a couple of shots hand held in the relative  dark without disturbing the tour group too much.

Overlooking the Mersey River. There are ochre cliffs to the right. While it is nice this is listed as one of the great short walks in Tasmania and we were a little disappointed after the build up.

Free camp behind the hotel 🙂

Small running creek as well 🙂 🙂

Wild platypus in the creek 🙂 🙂 🙂

While I didn't get them both in the frame together, there were at least two, possibly three platypus playing here.

While the spirit was still loading the Searoad Tamar berthed next to us was unloading.

Almost ready to leave - dropping the lines.

Tug boats not needed for for the spirit. We skilfully did a U-turn with the limited space.

Underway - heading for Bass Straight.

Reflections on board the spirit.

While not rough the ship rolled a lot more this trip. The viewing decks were closed for a lot of the voyage.

Through the heads into Port Melbourne.

Shipping in Port Melbourne.

Shipping in Port Melbourne.

Port Melbourne - time to go down and find "Clifford"

All our travels in Tasmania. For the eagle eyed you will note it also includes the ferry trip over.

Had a great day catching up with Bec and Kieran in Melbourne. Went to the zoo and then out for a nice tea.

I didn't really expect to see long horn steers at the zoo. This group came from Texas in Queensland.

Eat, Sleep, Repeat.

The plains of South Africa?

So now the cat is out of the bag. We actually paid a little extra and had a much smaller vehicle, smaller group and guide.