Hello folks,
I woke up on our second to last day and decided to catch the sunrise from atop the nut. On the hike up I passed literally over a hundred wallabies it was pretty crazy. The hike was very very steep and gave great views of the town below and the beaches. It was amazing up there a very unique landscape with not a person in sight. I couldn't have asked for a better setting to watch the sunrise. After the sunrise I spent and hour our so exploring around the nut. We all met up back at the hostel and starting driving east across the north shore. In about an hour we stopped at Rocky Cape National Park. It was well... rocky and very cool!
From here we went to the town of Penguin (yes thats its name) and attended the local sunday market. There was food, shops, and a mini beer garden with live music. We had a look around and found some interesting stuff. There was one stand where it was just a girl standing in front of a framed picture of her with the cast of some Australian TV show. She wasnt even selling anything she was just talking about her experience of meting these people..... kinda of odd if you ask me. There was one guy who looked like he just unloaded his garage and attic with no order into his spot so I went over and talked with him. He pulled out a mini sward almost a dagger but bigger and told me that it was a Nazi officer sward from back in the day. It had some gems on it and even a few swastikas, he was asking $3,500 for it, I passed but it was still really cool to hold a piece of history like that.
We stocked up on some local bake goods and fruit and hit the road. We found another water fall or two to hike and made our way to a nature park to see some animals up close and personal. The park was only open for another hour so I didnt buy a ticket saving me a few bucks, I was happy just seeing the wild penguins the night before. While I waited out side with Monica it started to rain and next thing we knew and killer double rainbow sprung up in the valley. It was perfect you could see both ends on end even looked like it stopped right on top of a sheep. We wondered around to take some pictures of the rainbow and found that one of the gates to the park was open so we got inside to see some animals for free. It was a nice little added bonus.
From here we drove a few more hours to Launceston and settled into our hostel for the night. This hostel was huge and very very nice, we all really enjoyed it. In the morning we dropped of Cristian at the airport and spend our final day exploring Launceston. We hiked a path through a gorge on the edge of the city and just spent the day taking it easy.
The next day I flew back to Sydney and back to reality, well kinda. I had an absolute blast on this trip!!! Traveling around with three other strangers in a foreign land was really special. I have really been wanting to do this type of trip and it was even more fun than I could have imagined!
-Evan
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