Australia trip Day 11 - Tasmania trip Day 3

Time flies, it was the last day in Tasmania.

The view from my hotel.

Mr tour guide fetched us at 8.30am and the first stop for today was Mt. Field National Park, which is also known as the natural oxygen bar and the oldest natural reserve in Tasmania. There were a lot of old Gum Tree in this reserve forest. The maximum lifespan of a gum tree is 25 years, but there is 1% of it could live until 100 over years.

This is the second tallest gum tree in the world. It was hard to capture the photo of the whole tree.

We were going to walk to visit two waterfalls in the national park.

Horseshoe Falls (马蹄瀑布)

 Russell Falls (罗素瀑布)
With my tour guide - Xiao Zhou. He is a very good and responsible tour guide. He holds Master for accountancy but then he changes his career to be a tour guide because he felt bored sitting in the office for the whole day.

Way back to city. There were alot of poppy flower (罂粟花) farm along the roadside.
The beautiful flower for making pain killer/ drugs. 75% of poppy flowers in the world is planted and exported from Tasmania.

Houses along the road.

Next station was the Mona Private Museum. This is the largest private museum in Southern Hemisphere. The owner of this museum make a lot of money through gambling in casino. He had created a mathematics formula that help him to win in worldwide casino and he is now prohibited from all the casino. LOL. He spent part of his money to build this underground museum. Most of the collections in this museum are about Sex and Abuse. The entrance ticket is $20. Since this was an optional travelling spot, my aunt and I chose not to enter.

Outside Mona.

There is a cafe in the museum and many ang moh chose to have sunbathing and enjoying their coffee outdoor. The sun wasw really merciless that day. I dont understand why they can stand of the sun.

I was just simply posing for some photo and escaped from the sun and hide in the shade already. Unlike those ang moh could 'enjoy' the hot sun for a whole afternoon. Bravo!

Spent 2 hours talking with a pair of old couple from Shanghai in the cafe while waiting for some visitors from Taiwan. The last station of my Tasmania trip was the Tasmania Botanical Garden. The botanical garden here was much smaller compared to Royal Botanical Garden in Melbourne, but somehow the flowers here also very beautiful.

Love this photo as the flowers were so colourful =)

Inside the Japanese Garden.

The lavender garden

The very weird tree.

The arch.

The photo of all the members for my Day 3.

Before we went back, mr tour guide drove us to Sandy Bay Villa area to see those expensive villa. This area is the area where rich Tasmanians stay. The villa in this area is expensive because the view here is great! You can view the whole Hobart city: The tower in the left bottom is the tallest building in Hobart - the casino and the bridge in front is Tasmans bridge (塔斯曼大桥).

Say bye-bye to Tasmania and my tour guide that looked like Ethan Ruan. :(

Our 8pm flight had delayed to 9pm Grrrr. Reach Melbourne airport at 10pm and jie jie fetched us back. I was shocked because the weather from that night was terribly HOT! It was hot and dry and just like the condition when the electrical current is being cut in Malaysia. No fan in jie jie's house. That was how my night spent. First time I experienced the real Summer day. I heard the temperature was 39 degree celcius for that day. OMG.

Melbourne city from the flight.

TO BE CONTINUED......