{"id":1354,"date":"2012-07-05T10:14:27","date_gmt":"2012-07-05T00:14:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/travel.lewisdrafting.com.au\/?p=1354"},"modified":"2012-07-05T12:01:23","modified_gmt":"2012-07-05T02:01:23","slug":"tasmania","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/travel.ripple.farm\/?p=1354","title":{"rendered":"Tasmania"},"content":{"rendered":"

Where do I start ???\u00a0 It has been a while since I have added a post to our blog. We have been so busy.<\/p>\n

Yes, we were about to hop on the plane at the beginning of May to pick up our car and caravan that were in storage in WA, and to continue our trip up the west coast of WA. The trip is on hold at this stage, as our dreams came true and we sold our home, although only having about four weeks to drive the van to Tassie and head back to Ballina to pack up was very challenging to say the least. We did it, and even bought a home in Tassie at the same time. We have been spending the past two weeks settling in and unpacking what seems like hundreds of boxes. The garage is still full of unopened boxes, but we will get there. We found a queen size doona yesterday, so the spare room is now ready for visitors !!!!<\/p>\n

We enjoyed our trip down to Melbourne and another crossing on the Spirit of Tasmania, this time bringing the stag and Mal’s new landcruiser. We have visited the Salamanca Markets to buy the most beautiful vegies, cheeses, breads etc. We have eaten out a few times including a memorable meal at the famous Donovans Restaurant in St Kilda on our way over. We have really been enjoying a lot of “winter warmers” home cooked meals, and spent last Saturday night cooking for Tanya, one of our Tassie friends. The fire has been going non stop since we moved in and it helps keep the home cosy. I am impatient to start planting my vegie and herb garden in my beautiful possum proof vegie garden, but after having a visit form Jack Frost last week, will hold off for about a month or two. We will just have to visit Salamanca Markets every Saturday to buy them there.<\/p>\n

Dick and Jenny, we will we catching up with Mark and Karen again soon. For those that don’t know, Mark and Karen were one of our “Grove” neighbours in Lennox Head who beat us to Tasmania to live. Mutley and Salem have settled in well and love exploring the 9 acres of bushland. They watch the possums eating their apples on the back verandah each night from the safety of inside the home, so spend the next morning searching for signs of them in the bush !!!!<\/p>\n

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Early this morning on the verandah (left click on the photos to get a better view)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
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Todays first sunlight through the gums<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

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Last night...while watching QLD beat NSW unfortunately<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
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one of our possum family<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
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Mum and baby eating the bird seed<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
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Salamanca Markets<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
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Winter hats at the markets with Mount Wellington behind...if you left click on the photo you will see the snow<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
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Salamanca<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
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Even the dogs need their winter woolies !!!!<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
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Wursthaus Kitchen...one of my favourite delis in Salamanca Hobart<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
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Buskers at the market<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
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Blue Skies Restaurant in Hobart...down by the docks. Tanya works here. Good food.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
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Hobart art<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
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Bronze art with Mures Seafood Restaurant in the background....great chowder<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
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St Kilda Pier Melbourne before boarding the boat on our trip down<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
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Waiting to take the stag on board the ship<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
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We celebrated my Dad's 90th Birthday just before leaving for Tassie<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
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A high flyer overtakes us on the highway.....the need for speed<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

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Where do I start ???\u00a0 It has been a while since I have added a post to our blog. We have been so busy. Yes, we were about to hop on the plane at the beginning of May to pick up our car and caravan that were in storage in WA, and to continue our … Continue reading Tasmania<\/span> →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":373,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[48],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1354","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-tasmania"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/travel.ripple.farm\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1354","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/travel.ripple.farm\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/travel.ripple.farm\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/travel.ripple.farm\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/373"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/travel.ripple.farm\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1354"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"https:\/\/travel.ripple.farm\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1354\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1383,"href":"https:\/\/travel.ripple.farm\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1354\/revisions\/1383"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/travel.ripple.farm\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1354"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/travel.ripple.farm\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1354"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/travel.ripple.farm\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1354"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}