Tasmania: West Coast

On March 19, 2013March 20, 2013 By ambertravelingIn Backpacking, Pretty Places, UncategorizedLeave a comment

After our east coast adventure, we went back to Hobart to pick up a car to relocate to Melbourne. It’s a deal that gives cheap or free rentals to people who are willing to drive cars to certain locations. If you want to do a car relocation, check out my travel advice page.

Thanks rock for taking the photo. Car camping with James

We picked blackberries for this family fora week, here are the pizzas we made them!

There was a little Switzerland

Dinner time!

Amazing campsite down random dirt road near Cradle Mountain

Rocky Cape National Park, Tasmania

Spiderweb

Back in Melbourne, at a friend’s house

Check out their view!

Oh yeah.

Tasmania: Up the East Coast

On March 15, 2013 By ambertravelingIn Backpacking, Pretty Places1 Comment

Here are a few pictures from our trip up the East Coast of Tasmania. We really took our time, spending 2 weeks to do a trip lots of people do in just a few days. We had lots of leisurely walks on beaches, and did a couple of longer treks on Maria Island and around Wineglass Bay.

There were adorable wallabies everywhere, who would have happily eaten out of our hands if we had offered food. We had heard not to feed them, though obviously lots of people do.

Cooking dinner

Again thanks to the rock who took this picture. HECK YES TASMANIA

Hazards Beach

Sunset at Wineglass Bay

Early morning at Wineglass

One of our better campsites

Wallabees everywhere!

Wake up!

Gentle Earth Walking

On February 26, 2013February 28, 2013 By ambertravelingIn Volunteering1 Comment

After the peach orchard, James and I headed to helpx at another property near Daylesford, Victoria. Being in Australia, we never expected to meet and live with people who embraced Native American ideals, but here we were!

Sue and Don call their project Gentle Earth Walking, where they build custom made teepees, ranging from 15 to 25 feet wide. It’s a long and loving process: collecting trees from the forest for poles, stripping, sanding, and polishing them, and sewing the canvas cover. Their other big project is called Timber Benders – Don makes benches, awnings, and other structures in his enormous workshop.

They run sweat lodges and spiritual gatherings, build straw-bale houses, and live off the grid, relying on their solar panels for electricity. To take a hot shower you have to start a fire under the water tank!

We had an amazing time with them, and who knows, maybe we will go back someday.