Tasmania Day 1 From Hobart to the East coast

Having been to some of the other major Australian cities, I decided to venture out to the Australian island Tasmania! I had seen this island been advertised in our tour packages since young so I had always wanted to travel to Tasmania.

Tasmania can only be reached via transit in some other mainland Australian cities like Melbourne, Sydney. I picked Melbourne as the transit city since I could also bring my parents to the 12 Apostles.

We arrived at Hobart around 9 plus in the morning and went to pick up the rental car at the Avis counter just opposite the airport. The small little office contained many other rental car offices. I had some issues with its Melbourne office as they were pondering whether to accept the slip issued by the traffic officials as license. Luckily, I didn't had similar issues with the Avis at Hobart! We were given a nice white Holden. As soon as we got the car, we set off to the east coast. I had booked an airplane ride over the wineglass bay.  The weather was pretty gloomy then and I was worried that the ride would be cancelled.

It was quite a long ride. We passed by many wineries and couldn't stop for wine tasting since we were rushing to get to the friendly beaches. We made some random stops for toilets and phototaking though.

Random stop along the east coast to admire the blue sea

Rainbow

We stopped for lunch at the Freycinet Marine Farm (1784 Coles Bay Road, Coles Bay, Tasmania, Australia). Coles Bay road is a long stretch of road and we overshot the destination initially. The environment  at the farm is simple but the food was really fresh and delicious!

It's the freshest seafood we tasted in this trip.

 

After the lunch, we drove to the Freycinet Air @ friendly beaches for our scheduled flight over the wineglass bay. We were pretty hopeful since the sun was shining brightly. However, we noticed a signpost "closed for the day due to weather" as we reached the destination. I tried calling the operator who told us that its too windy for the ride and requested us to call back the next day to check availability. 

It was disappointing but there was no other choice. With this sudden change in plan, I had to shift my plans around. We decided to drive to bay of fires instead. This was a bad decision on hindsight as we only reached the white sandy bay during the sunset. I didn't manage to capture beautiful pictures in the sun.

St Helens