My Travels of Tassie

We've been travelling Tassie for a long time. We've been travelling for 4 and a half weeks. 

We went to Treetops where you ride on lots of zip lines. The highest one was 50 meters and the longest zipline was 400 meters. It went over a river. I didn't like the longest one because I didn't get to the end and I had to put my hands up high on the harness and push my arms forwards really fast to push the wheels. They call it walrus-ing.

We went on an awesome boat ride where we went through caves on Bruny Island. On the boat trip there were lots of sharp turns. We went 50km/h and there were 3 big engines on the back of the boat. We saw some Common Dolphins and they had baby dolphins with them. We also saw some seals. The seals were fur coated and mostly male. They were big and fat and sun baking on the rocks to dry off.

Living on Bertha is like living in a house the shape of a bus. With wheels. My bed is really comfortable and I love snuggling up with Mum and Dad in the morning because they don't have to go to work. Bertha broke down, so now we are hobos travelling from caravan park to caravan park. Its really annoying because nothing has its own spot. Bertha needs a new engine because the old one had done 1 000 000 more kilometres than we thought. We should get her back soon. It was cool watching her get lifted up onto the tow truck.

In the caravan parks, there are lots of kids and I made friends with two of them.

At Queenstown, Dad and I played soccer on the football ground. We also saw people playing cricket on there. The Queenstown sports ground was sand and gravel not grass.

At ZooDoo, we saw meercats. Lots of them! And one little tiny baby. You can see it in the photo above under the laying-down meercat's chin. We also went on a safari bus. We went inside an emu and ostritch enclosure and we went in an alpaca's enclosure. And we also went into the camel enclosure. The camel's head came right into the bus. Spit!

At the Hobart museum, we saw a room for the thylacine. There was another room full of stuffed animals which I really liked.

 

At Platypus House we played with some echidnas on a guided tour. There were 3 platypus and also the biggest platypus in Australia. His name is Jupiter.

The first trip in Bertha.

Hi! My name is Angus and this is my first adventure in Bertha. I am almost 8 years old and we are going to travel around Australia in a bus. The bus is called "Bertha".

Our house just got sold at an auction a few hours ago and we are leaving on December 29. I live in Melbourne with my Mum, my Dad and my big sister, Lexie. Our first trip was to Wonthaggi, where we went to the State Coal Mines. It was a "shakedown trip" which means you can test out what you need to keep sealed up when you drive in a motorhome. And Mummy forgot to lock the fridge and the door went flying out.

I love Bertha!