Tasmania!!! Hobart, Launceston and Bicheno

Finally I arrived in Tasmania. This has been the place I was dying to see from the start of my journey.
The first thing I noticed was how brown Tassie was. Apparently the weather in Tassie had been very hot and dry and all the green fields and trees Tasmania once had turned brown.
Hobart is a small town with lots of history. It was one of the first settlements of the European colonists and is even older than Melbourne. Hence Hobart is blessed with lovely Georgian architecture which you can experience when walking through the Salamanca market and battery point.
I didn't want to spent too much time here at first as Fabienne would come in a week and I still needed things to see. For that reason I left Hobart and headed out to Launceston.
As with Hobart, Launceston has a lot of atmosphere and feeling to it. It is still quite big but is surrounded by nature. For instance the cataract gorge, which is a gorge surrounded by city but you feel like you're much further away. They do have a nice swimming pool there where loads of people heap up on a hot summers day (though I don't quite get why they put it there as the you can swim in the gorge itself and is not more than 10 m away.
I spent my time here doing some short walks, reading in some parks and going to the QVMAG (Queen Victoria Museum and Art Gallery). It was a nice museum about a lot but I particularly liked the animal section (where you could see stuffed Tasmanian tigers) and the science part (the part where kids learn to like science in a playful way, oh my I turned in a child again).
The last days before Fabienne came I went to Bicheno, an old fishermen and whaling village. It is very small but the rocks at the beaches were wonderful. They had all kinds of colour ranging from pink to red and yellow and greenish as well.
It also is the place to go from to see Freycinet national park, famous for wineglass bay, a beautiful white beach (though far less white than Whitehaven beach).
I was walking with Julien (French guy) and we decided to do two tracks instead of one. We did not have a lot of time at wineglass bay as we had about 8-9 hours of walking to do in 6.5 hours. I was glad to not spent too much time on wineglass bay and hazards beach as what we did afterwards was just jawdroppingly beautiful.
We decided to climb mt. Amos (455 m and the second highest mountain in the hazards range). It is a very steep climb and it goes straight up the mountain. Already halfway it was astonishing to see but at the top it was just mindblowing. We had a 360 deg view of wineglass, hazards ,Coles bay and even Bicheno and the other part of the Freycinet national park. Though the nicest part still has to come. We climbed the top in 45 min, however the descent to about twice as long. For a large part we needed all four of our limbs and some parts even all five (yes, our bumbs), but we made it down safely.
The next day we walked around Bicheno again and apart from the scenery we saw the mayor (French guy as well) and two stars of the Mel Gibson movie 'mad Max', though the mayor was one of those characters. Finally we went to Hobart again where Fabiennes early arrival made me get up out of bed too early. We booked our flight into the park (yes, the only way to start the walk is to fly to the start by an ultralight) on the 15th and there I will experience if Fabienne really is a worthy walking companion (and hope that she doesn't snore, but she doesn't luckily but I still hope ;-) )