Tasmania Vacation - Feb. 24-March 1

Christy's Tasmania Vacation Highlights:
*Never-ending spectacular scenery, often times allowing us total isolation. It is pretty amazing to travel to such fantastic locations that are still sparsely populated and undeveloped.
*When we went to bed on Sunday night, it was fairly cold and windy, and we were concerned about our Monday morning sea kayak trip being cancelled. We woke on Monday morning, however, to complete calm and sunshine. 2 ladies that we met on our trip had been waiting for the weather to clear since Saturday to go on their kayak trip.
*Our camera stayed dry & Andy found my prescription sunglasses in the water after we rolled our kayak as we surfed it in to shore.
*Feeling like we could create our own scenic postcards while camping at Wineglass Bay.
*Breakfast with the wallabies on Tuesday morning.
*Drinking wine and listening to tunes in the car as it poured outside on Tuesday night.
*Finding that the trust we had put in our tent staying dry as we sat in the car and drank wine and listened to tunes as it poured outside for about 3 hours was realised!
*Our little rental car, Echo, successfully making it up the very steep hill to reach Huon Bush Retreat. Seriously, the hill was so steep that at the base of the hill there was a STOP sign with instructions/recommendations about how to make it up the hill depending on what type of vehicle you were driving! "Go, Echo!" we chanted.
*Taking showers upon our arrival at Big Tree Cabin on Thursday (um, neither of us had showered since Sunday morning in Melbourne prior to our departure, unless you count the quick dip in salty/sandy Coles Bay on Monday morning when we tipped the kayak).
*Relaxing next to a warm woodburning stove in both the cabin and the tipee.
*Celebrating the early hours of February 29, champagne glass in hand, soaking in the outdoor tub on our Big Tree Cabin deck.
*Receiving multiple international phone calls on Friday!
*Spending Friday night in a luxury tipee!
*Seeing how happy it made Andy to be the master of the grill again on Friday night as he prepared our steaks for dinner.
*Eating fun-size Snickers every night as our dessert all week long.
*Crisping up cinnamon-sugar donuts on the top of our woodburning stove on Friday night in lieu of our camp tradition of roasting donut holes (we have been unsuccessful in finding donut holes anywhere in Australia yet).
*Spending the entire week on the type of vacation that Andy and I really love.
*The video that I took of Andy explaining how he had won our game of Snakes & Ladders (I'll get that up on the blog soon). giggle, giggle

Christy's Tasmania Vacation Bummer:
*Andy lost his prescription sunglasses in the water after we rolled our kayak as we surfed it in to shore.

Hope everyone is very well and happy.
Cheers!

Love, Christy