Author's note:
'Oh my god. After Easter break has come and gone, it was as if a dam broke or something~! I'm now up to my waist in work to do... hahahah~! I super duper apologize for the delay.My internet at home is not the greatest in the world... though miraculously I was able to upload these photos... one by one.
Can't work on them in school... but now since I can do it at home, it's good. Can fall back into the routine of updating the blog... slower than I ideally want. I've still been taking photos (though not as much since I'm not sitting next to a window anymore... I miss my sunset spot...
Anyway, on with the update about the Tasmania Trip. If you're wondering why I'm still bothered to do this even after so long, it's because it's ultimately for me since my blog is my journal and I plan to keep it as chronological as I can.'
Woke up at 7am. Mum was downstairs cooking breakfast, went down to eat breakfast (which was 2 pieces of sandwiches made up of bread, zucchini, smashed eggs, ham and garlic butter)
(Here's a photo of mum in the common hall)
Dad washed the dishes while I helped to pack lunch away. (The common kitchen, at least we can cook our own meals)
(You can play chess too if you wanted, hehehe) We left the hostel at 8am. Heading to scenic look out point. Not much there to look out... I did play with the swings there, hehehe
(Duckies~! Quack, quack, quack~!) We stopped by the Royal Botanic Gardens again.
Saw lilies, Canna, Lavendar, etc. Left again at 9.16am.
(We drove past this road which I thought was pretty interesting... )
(It was a long stretch of road that was paved across the lake...or was it the river... hahah~! I think it looks pretty awesome regardless. Reminded me of the one-lane bridge back in New Zealand I suppose...)
Heading to Sorrell Fruit Farm.
(The flowers looked lovely, the pinks and the purple... smelled gorgeous too)
There, as an entrance fee, each of us was required to buy a punnet (that plastic box you see mum holding) and was allowed a max of 1.1kg each. Should you exceed the weight, you would have to pay more money.
(There was a sign of the names of the berries... I didn't know there were that many kinds of berries...)
(You actually can look at this fruit chart that tells you what fruits is ripe for the picking, when their season are and the price) It's soooo much cheaper to come to fruit farms to get the fruits and fresh. hahah~! How more fresh can it be... We're picking them off the trees and bushes.
We had fun picking the fruits...
Bosenberry (taste sourish), Loganberry, Raspberry (very small ones), Tayberries, Silvanberry, blueberry (mum took a taste, too bad it wasn't ripe yet)
(I'm not sure what berry photo is what... hahaha~!)
(But these ones look very much ripe for the picking)
Walked past unripe apricots, apples (march), nashi pears. (Dad actually picked one and ate it... hahaha~! From his face, you can tell that the fruit was SUPER sour)
Went to harvest the cherries~! There were two types; a smaller, sweeter cherry which was yellow red and then there was the normal, slightly sourish cherries (deep red)
(It was my first time harvesting for cherries~!)
(And there were so many to choose from~!)
(They grow in bunches like this...)
(They look a little like cherry tomatoes, don't they?) I harvested while eating...
I only filled my punnet halfway when mum came to show me how much she picked. hahaha~! Oopsies~!
We then went to harvest strawberries. (I had picked strawberries before in Cameron I believe. But I think this one was cooler~!)
Oh in case you're wondering, we paid Aud 9 per punnet. Made our way to Eaglehawk Neck View. .
Drove nearer to see the terracated plains, it's like a square-rocked pavement but crumbling. 
(EDIT: hehe.. thanks to dad i got some photos to show you what i was trying to describe)
Stopped to see a Tasmanian Devil Conservation Park but because it cost aud 26 per head, we opted to buy a aud 13 picture book instead. After that, we continued our journey to Port Arthur. I was pretty shocked to see a big visitor centre building. I had thought it was like Elizabeth St Bay. I didn't expect it to be a big scale tourism thing when dad told us that we were going to visit Port Arthur.
We took the bronze pass which was aud28 for adults and aud23 for me, student consesseion. This includes walking tour (40 minutes) and the harbour cruise (20 minutes). Our tour guide, Heather was funny, good, charismatic guide. For a prison for 40+ years, they made some impressive building / system.
There was a hospital (but no anesthetic), asylum, the main cells (used to be a flour mill) which is able to house 400+ inmates, the separate cell (introduced when the physical punishment lost its effect) aka the dark and dumb cell, the church, the civil row (this is where people like lawyer, accountant, surgeons, upper class people stay = family of the guards). Althought they stay in the other side of the picket fence, the free people were also in a sense like in jail. All they have is a fine English garden but beyond that; nothing.
Sat on the river cruise, was a lovely weather; clear blue sky, windy. By the time we were done with the cruise (I'm a little sad that I forgot to copy the photos from the SLR which is why this section is without photos EDIT: thanks to dad, at least i got something here now. hahaha~! thanks~! [hugs & kisses]), we made our way to the memorial stone in memory to the random shooting that killed a number of tourist in 1996 (done by a crazed gunman who was caught).
Here, dad had pointed out that one of his friends had been a victim to this sad tragedy. His friend's remains was laid to rest back in Malaysian grounds.
I was in charge of driving back to Sorell. I had not driven in 10 months (11 feb - 21 dec). I'm still in one piece so it's good. Haha~! Back in the city, we made our way to the fruit market again to buy tomorrow's breakfast and lunch.
After that, we had KFC for dinner. In the hostel, we had a new hostel mate (My parents and I shared the room with one more person), a japanese girl who was here on working holiday. Anyway, took a good shower and then went to Wrest Point Casino again (8.20pm - 11.20pm). All left with winnings. hahah~! Went to bed at 12 something.
