Possibly the world's best beach

Melbourne, Australia

We've left Tasmania, which is a shame because it's beautiful.  Twelve days wasn't enough!  Here's an update on what we did in Freycinet national park.

On Monday we walked two hours to get to Wineglass Bay, which is reputed to be the best beach in Tasmania.  It's only accessible by boat or on foot, although despite that there was a steady stream of people trekking through the bush to it.  This is the first view, from the hill that overlooks the bay:

The weather in Tasmania had turned quite a lot cooler, which was good as it was a steep walk up to this point! But then all downhill to the lovely white sand and turquoise water.

It really was pretty nice, and to make the most of it we had a quick swim at the far end (that's another 45 mins of walking along that sand, with your feet in the water - somebody has to do these jobs y'know)

At the far end we found this whale skeleton, fortunately all picked clean by now:

Eventually we had to leave and get back up over the hill.  On the way we had to prop up one of the massive pink granite boulders that were lying around, and stop it rolling onto the path!!

We also saw a big tiger snake on the path, which is very poisonous, but no-one got bitten.  They are mating at this time of year and can be a bit defensive - they don't normally attack.
The day after this was a bit more cloudy, but we had a look at another of the pink granite bays.

We found a new room for Kitty, and some stripy limpets too:

So it's a big TICK for Freycinet, we loved it!  Now we're back in Melbourne, and tomorrow we'll probably visit the zoo before the big long boring flight leaves in the evening.

Vicky, Mike, Thomas and Kitty xxxx