... be sure to wear your good boots on your feet!

I spent most of December there, and, well, I like.

If you ever wondered exactly what is in store for you if you are brave enough to boldly go where none of your friends have gone before, I'll show you. Here are some photos showing off the beautiful beaches in Freycinet National Park, a wonderful hike from Cradle Mountain to Lake St Clair, and some of what you can see, pretty much for free, if you spend a few days in Hobart.

I give you Tasmania: http://www.pvv.org/~bct/taz/

Happy trails,

Bjørn
http://bjornfree.com/

Great photos. Thanks for sharing.

Tasmania is somewhere I would really like to go. Your photos are great, love the roos battling it out .

thankyou for sharing these! i'm going to tasmania in july sometime, your photos have made me even more excited!

Thanks, all of you.

Caiti: I'm glad the photos make you excited about going to Tasmania, but keep in mind that my photos were taken as summer was peaking there... I'm sure Tasmania in July will be excellent as well, but it'll probably look slightly different. Probably a little... whiter, I suspect, especially in the mountains. #8D)

Happy trails,

Bjørn
http://bjornfree.com/

Uspn, with regard to the fighting wallabies, you said you don't really know why or how. Males fight to decide who is dominant. The dominant male - known as the alpha male - is usually the largest and the strongest and can remain dominant for a few months up to a few years. He has to ward off "challenges" from other males who wish to become the "alpha male."

A challenger will at times give up the fight (for a time) and just hop off away. Until the next time. When they fight and the challenger doesn't give up, they fight to the death. They use their tail for balancing and the claws on their hindfeet for kicking or to disembowel their opponent.

I witnessed such a fight up in the NT a couple of years ago. It was all very sad.

Btw, your photos are brilliant. Thanks for sharing them.