{"id":1567,"date":"2011-01-15T18:26:16","date_gmt":"2011-01-16T01:26:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.thejohnsonsjournal.com\/?p=1567"},"modified":"2011-01-17T02:49:16","modified_gmt":"2011-01-17T09:49:16","slug":"christmas-in-tassie","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thejohnsonsjournal.com\/?p=1567","title":{"rendered":"Christmas in Tassie"},"content":{"rendered":"

Since we weren’t going to be able to come back to the States for Christmas, we decided to go to the coldest place in Australia, Tasmania. \u00c2\u00a0Tasmania is an island state off the the southern coast of Australia, known for its seafood and national parks. \u00c2\u00a0We left Melbourne on Christmas eve and flew to Launceston in the north part of the island. \u00c2\u00a0After arriving we stopped to get some lunch, groceries and camping supplies and were off to Cradle Mt – Lake St Clair\u00c2\u00a0National Park.<\/p>\n

We spent a quiet night camping just outside the park and on Chrissy (Christmas) morning we had a big breakfast and set out for a day hike in the national park. \u00c2\u00a0We decided to hike up to Marion’s lookout and then around Dove Lake for great views of Cradle Mountain. \u00c2\u00a0As we set off on the hike we are impressed with the\u00c2\u00a0scenery and unique\u00c2\u00a0vegetation, which was unlike anything else we have seen in Australia. \u00c2\u00a0Once we got up to Marion’s lookout we were impressed by the view and stopped to have some lunch. \u00c2\u00a0We hiked back down to the base of the mountains and enjoyed an easy walk around Dove Lake, then went back to the camp site for a our Chrissy dinner – lamb chops, couscous, green beans, salad, and a bottle of Australia\u00c2\u00a0Shiraz. \u00c2\u00a0Not bad for camping!<\/p>\n

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Cradle Mountain at the start of the trail<\/p><\/div>\n

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Little lakes along the trail<\/p><\/div>\n

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View from Marion's lookout<\/p><\/div>\n

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Chrissy dinner camping<\/p><\/div>\n

The day after Christmas we drove back to Launceston and to the east coast of Tasmania to a little town called Bicheno. \u00c2\u00a0Bicheno is known for its colony of little blue\u00c2\u00a0penguins\u00c2\u00a0and we were there to take a tour of the\u00c2\u00a0rookery. \u00c2\u00a0It was pouring rain when we arrived, but that didn’t stop the tour. \u00c2\u00a0We put on our rain jackets and set off after the sun went down. \u00c2\u00a0It was amazing how many\u00c2\u00a0penguins\u00c2\u00a0made their way up the beach and the rocks to their homes in the rookery. \u00c2\u00a0We had a great time even though when we got home we were soaking wet and very cold.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Since we weren’t going to be able to come back to the States for Christmas, we decided to go to the coldest place in Australia, Tasmania. \u00c2\u00a0Tasmania is an island state off the the southern coast of Australia, known for its seafood and national parks. \u00c2\u00a0We left Melbourne on Christmas eve and flew to Launceston […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10,66],"tags":[96,24,25,26,104],"class_list":["post-1567","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-australia","category-tasmania","tag-australia","tag-camping","tag-hiking","tag-national-parks","tag-tasmania"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thejohnsonsjournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1567","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thejohnsonsjournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thejohnsonsjournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thejohnsonsjournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thejohnsonsjournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1567"}],"version-history":[{"count":9,"href":"https:\/\/thejohnsonsjournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1567\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1605,"href":"https:\/\/thejohnsonsjournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1567\/revisions\/1605"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thejohnsonsjournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1567"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thejohnsonsjournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1567"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thejohnsonsjournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1567"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}