University of Sydney

today i saw two fat bearded builders getting foot massages in an asian pedicure parlour. plain weird.

Back in Sydney

well i came back this week and here to stay. today it was 41 degrees.

Ricky & Nini

well tonights my last night in tasmania - tomorrow i fly back to sydney. big thanks to andre&kate for the past two weeks. ill also miss these two little dudes. in the first fifteen minutes of arriving at mangana we heard yelping from a creek across the road & i found four abandoned puppies. andre&kate decided to keep two, and the black one is named after me. they're pretty cute, but i certainly wont miss treading in their shit the whole time.

Freycinet

3 things to remember in tasmania:

  
don't go to port arthur and freycinet in one day, you'll be driving for 8 hours. like i was.
don't run in the forest. you'll run into a big tiger snake and step on it. like i almost did. 
don't forget to fill up with petrol before 18:00 cos everything shuts and you'll be running on empty. like i was.

Port Arthur

i was probably overly ambitious going to both port arthur and freycinet in one day. i was so rushed i learnt basically nothing about this place apart from it was an old prison and loads of bad shit happened.

Mangana colour

yellow white and blue

Mangana around 18:40

Mangana gold

like many towns around here mangana got big during the gold rush and was virtually abandoned after. lots of shit was left behind.

Tasmanian east coast

• blue tier mountains
• goulds country - former mining town abandoned after the gold rush
• binalong bay (bay of fire)

Mangana around 20:30

Mangana around 19:00

Mangana mission

Hartz Mountains

the view from the top looked over miles and miles of forest wilderness. thats tomas, my spanish friend.

St Imre Vineyard

tonights my last night at st imre, leaving for east tas tomorrow. this past week ive been working for kat and paul, a hungarian couple who fled communist romania in 1987. wish i could stay longer as they are real characters and their wine is very good! btw that cat is just one of nine.