02 July 2007

Tasmania 7

The next day it was time to leave Strahan. We travelled together in two cars until we reached Zeehan, where we had a look at some of the old locamotives at the museum there. After coffee, we headed off seperately. My parents and their friends were heading North, and I was heading to the Sheffield area.


On the way to Sheffield I stopped off at Tasmazia. This is an "attraction" with a number of different types of mazes to explore. My expectations were not too high after my experience with the Westbury Maze (which was pretty lame), but this was much better. The great maze was made more interesting by lots of little statuettes and signs with jokes (mostly very bad!) down all the wrong turns. Half the fun turned out to be finding all the things hidden in the maze, not just finding the centre. Also, the maze was set up so that you couldn't find your way through just by putting your hand on one wall and following it all the way. It was a challenging maze to solve.



While I was there, I saw a bumblebee. I have never seen one before and they really are quite different to the bees we get back in Victoria.



After finishing the great maze, there were several other types of mazes to explore, including a balance maze (not hard, but fun) and several other hedge mazes. These were smaller, and lacked the fun things to find, but were very challenging to solve. I had a lot of fun at Tasmazia.




After I got tired of mazes I continued on until I reached Sheffield. The motels were all pretty empty so I had no trouble finding a room. After the long drive from Strahan, and Tasmazia, I was very tired, so it was time to call it a night.

Tasmania 6

Onto the next part of the Tasmania trip.


After the train trip we still had an hour or two to kill before dinner, so we went on one of the short walks in Strahan. The walk was to Hogarth falls. The walking path followed the stream up to the falls area.



The walk only took about half an hour, but it was very pretty.

Bookshelves with books

Well, I'm home sick today, so I thought I might as well get back into blogging.

First up, here are the new bookshelves, now with books!