Tasmania

We took a bus excursion around the city in the morning. Our first stop was high on one of the mountains with a great lookout. Except that Tasmania is having a drought and it is late summer. So there are several active forest fires burning. The smoke was blinding. I took a couple photos but they aren’t good. The architecture in the city was pretty interesting. But even then the sky is bad.

Fortunately our second stop was at the Royal Tasmanian Botanical Gardens. The flowers were very much in bloom. But the gardens were very interesting because it wasn’t just flowers. They also labelled the trees even the giant redwoods and other plants. I took a bunch of photos there.

Kathy’s sister, Mary Leach will like this photo. She is a quilter. We walked all through the town and found a quilt shop. This was hanging on the wall. No we didn’t buy all of the different things necessary to make a copy. Sorry.

We did eat lunch at an interesting restaurant on the harbor. It was a family owned place where the family also had their own vineyard so we had a bottle of their wine, shared a salad, piece of Tasmanian salmon and some fries. We finally got in a lot of steps, over 15,000.