I spent the last week in Tasmanien for attending the 29th Australasien Polymer Symposium. The conference was actually very good and i met a lot of nice people. But enough about business, let's talk about Tasmania.
I think we all loved Tasmania. It is a wonderful island, a kind of natural paradise with weird animals and beautiful landscapes. Hobart, the capital is located in the south and has a nice harbour area and the famous salamanca square as main tourist sites.
However, leaving Hobart and exploring the island is basically the best you can do. So we hired a car and went to the Mt Field National parc, which hosts some of the tallest trees in Australia, has beautiful water falls and lakes. It is located straight in the center of Tasmania and is only 1 hour drive away from Hobart. It is really worth going there as you can see in the pictures.
On the way we found a wildlife park with coalas, kangaroohs, wallabies, emus and the deadly deadly tasmanian devil....
It was actually very nice seeing all these animals and feeding the wallabies. Later on we actually found some in the real wildlife, togethere with tiger snakes and platipus..
On Saturday we had decided to do some white-water rafting on derwent river. The river originates in the national parks, thus the water is very clean, you can even drink it. And since it was so hot, we just jumped over board from time to time to cool down on this very hot day. Simply a great ride down the river..
Great time there, 30th APS I'm coming....
MORE PHOTOS ARE HERE
http://picasaweb.google.de/andwalther
some are actually videos, like a jumping kangarooh or a moving wombat.
a little square at the bottom left corner indicates videos.
I think we all loved Tasmania. It is a wonderful island, a kind of natural paradise with weird animals and beautiful landscapes. Hobart, the capital is located in the south and has a nice harbour area and the famous salamanca square as main tourist sites.
However, leaving Hobart and exploring the island is basically the best you can do. So we hired a car and went to the Mt Field National parc, which hosts some of the tallest trees in Australia, has beautiful water falls and lakes. It is located straight in the center of Tasmania and is only 1 hour drive away from Hobart. It is really worth going there as you can see in the pictures.
On the way we found a wildlife park with coalas, kangaroohs, wallabies, emus and the deadly deadly tasmanian devil....
It was actually very nice seeing all these animals and feeding the wallabies. Later on we actually found some in the real wildlife, togethere with tiger snakes and platipus..
On Saturday we had decided to do some white-water rafting on derwent river. The river originates in the national parks, thus the water is very clean, you can even drink it. And since it was so hot, we just jumped over board from time to time to cool down on this very hot day. Simply a great ride down the river..
Great time there, 30th APS I'm coming....
MORE PHOTOS ARE HERE
http://picasaweb.google.de/andwalther
some are actually videos, like a jumping kangarooh or a moving wombat.
a little square at the bottom left corner indicates videos.
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