We didn't realize how "HOT" the temperature was actually going to be, on the next leg of our journey towards Australia. It was comparable to the "hot springs" in Rotorua in New Zealand.
Some people would consider these the "Nostrils of Satin" , or at least "a Devil of a Place to Live".
But at least you could get away from the heat by "just walking away". It wouldn't be so easy in Tasmania and Australia. These two places are among the most "rainless" places on earth.
It took a few days to arrive in Tasmania and we spent time in Hobart. The joke here is: (completely unfounded) "Be careful where you leave your possessions laying around here".
It seems the vast majority of its citizens are the result of "prison labor gangs" and MOST of the "early infrastructure" built here, was produced by those actually too poor to survive in England. I hate to think of early "debtor prisons" where you could be incarcerated for stealing a piece of clothing or some food to keep from starving to death.
Most of these prisoners (not to say all) were "shipped" here to work off "convictions of petty crimes". I'm sure glad this isn't LEGAL today!
I'm sure it was a "devil" of a place to live, in the early times, but it's actually a very comfortable pleasant place to live now.
In Tasmania, there are a few "unique" creatures living here (and only here).
I'll post some pictures on the next entry.
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