Kangaroos and Tasmanian Devils

Thursday, November 4 and we checked out of wonderful accomodations at the Cascade Colonial and headed back towards Hobart stopping at the Tasmanian Devil Conservation Park. It was fun to see the Tasmanian Devil and Kangaroos at feeding time--we even got to hand feed the kangaroos. We just could not go to Australia and Tasmania and not see kangaroos and Tasmanian Devils. It was an interesting place and we spent over 2 hours there.

Tasmanian Devil saying "hello" to us!

Waiting for her lunch.

Kangaroo and her joey

We were invited to feed the kangaroos

Next we travelled back toward the Hobart area by going through Richmond, a quaint village that was the first area granted to free settlers from England for farming, and at its center they established a township reminiscent of their homeland. Richmond now includes some of Australia's oldest colonial architecture. Most of the buildings were constructed by convicts, including the sandstone bridge built in 1823 and Roman Catholic Church built in 1825. It is in the heart of the Coal Valley Wine Country, with many vineyards and wineries.

Richmond Bridge

The Catholic church

One of the many vineyards

We arrived at our hotel in the Historic Battery Point. The building in which it is housed was the Duke of York Hotel back in the early colonial days of the 1800's, and the owners have done it up with modern amenities, but have kept a feel for the dimensions of the original building to make a most comfortable, centrally located accommodation. We have the entire 2nd floor of the building, which includes, 2 bedrooms, a bath, full kitchen, and dining/living room. WOW!

Our hotel--we had the entire second floor of the building

The living room of our hotel floor

View from our hotel window

A walk around the immediate area which is adjacent to the wharf and a dinner at a wonderful Italian restaurant and we are set for a relaxing night!

Every house has the front yard filled with flowering bushes, mostly roses.