{"id":2112,"date":"2022-10-30T06:49:04","date_gmt":"2022-10-30T06:49:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/box5755.temp.domains\/~kidstra3\/?p=2112"},"modified":"2024-01-17T09:48:03","modified_gmt":"2024-01-17T09:48:03","slug":"tasmania-hobart-and-surrounds","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kidstravelworld.com\/index.php\/2022\/10\/30\/tasmania-hobart-and-surrounds\/","title":{"rendered":"Tasmania – Hobart and Surrounds"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Our next stop was Hobart where we based ourselves to visit the city and surrounding area.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Hobart<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

We really liked Hobart. What a beautiful city all surrounded by water and mountains! The downtown has some pretty old buildings:<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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and a lovely wharf area:<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Mount Wellington is 1,271m high and overlooks Hobart. We drove up to the top where the temperature dropped to zero degrees! I think it has ice or snow on it most of the year. The view from the top is amazing!<\/p>\n\n\n

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While we were there, a huge cloud blew in and the effect was pretty cool.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Bruny Island<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

One day, we took the ferry out to Bruny Island and drove all around exploring the island. There were a couple of nice places to taste various foods and a couple of good views (especially ‘the neck’ which sort of joins what will eventually become two islands). But overall, we felt that it was a bit overrated.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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The Lighthouse:<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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The Neck and Adventure Bay:<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Port Arthur<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

Port Arthur is about an hour’s drive from Hobart. It was the site of a convict prison in the 1800s, and unfortunately, also the site where in 1996 a guy pulled out a gun and killed 35 tourists and staff and wounded another 23. This massacre led to fundamental changes in Australia’s gun laws and the gun buy-back scheme.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Your entry ticket includes a 30-minute tour and a 30-minute boat ride around the harbour. You then have the rest of the day to walk around the site and visit the various buildings. The area had a lot of personalised stories of the convicts and when you buy your ticket, they give you a card relating to a particular convict. You can look up the convict’s details in their museum and then follow your convict’s story at one of the various buildings at the site.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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We really enjoyed spending the day here – it was very interesting and well done.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Franklin<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

We stopped at the lovely little town of Franklin for a night on our way further south to visit some friends in Geeveston. The caravan camping in Franklin is right on the river and it was beautiful. We even had a seal float by on his back (with his flipper sticking out of the water!).<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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After spending the weekend with our friends, we headed into the center to visit Cradle Mountain.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Our next stop was Hobart where we based ourselves to visit the city and surrounding areas of Port Arthur, Bruny Island and Franklin.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":2130,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2112","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-australia-trip","category-blog"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kidstravelworld.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2112","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/kidstravelworld.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/kidstravelworld.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kidstravelworld.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kidstravelworld.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2112"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/kidstravelworld.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2112\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4192,"href":"https:\/\/kidstravelworld.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2112\/revisions\/4192"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kidstravelworld.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kidstravelworld.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2112"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kidstravelworld.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2112"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kidstravelworld.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2112"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}