Following the Tamar river valley from Launceston to Beauty point, and Green beach.




                        The views of the river valley make it worth to follow this road that eventually ends at
                         the coast in a popular area called Green beach. I took some pictures at the Brady
                         lookout which is surrounded by farms, cattle ranches and vineyards.
                         Tasmania offers a lot of things for all interests, it is full of history, scenery galore, an
                         extensive variety of wines, beers, artisanal products of all types, art works, foods of
                        all types locally produced, sea food, meats, cheeses, artisanal products used as cosme-
                        tics, or derived from fruits, etc.
                        At Beauty Point I found a place showing platypus and equidnas, and this time I saw
                        them closely, much better than at the zoo in Healesville, the explanations were much
                        more detailed, I learned that there is a fine of $50,000 dlls if one of these animals is
                        found in your possession, we saw them being fed in front of us, they even showed us
                        the poisoned spur of the males and explained that the venom is a neurotoxin that can
                        kill a child or incapacitate an adult for months, and there is no antidote, because each
                        male produces genetically his own kind of venom different from any other male.
                        The mating rituals of each species is very interesting and how they rear their young.
                        This was a unique Tasmanian experience.
                        On the road to Green beach, I found the historic remnant of the first settlement in
                        Tasmania, founded by the British in 1804 to prevent the French and the Dutch from
                        doing the same, and they named it Yorktown, which was for a while the capital of the
                        Island, until it was changed to Hobart which had a much better port to unload the
                        ships.
                        I had my lunch in  the town of Exeter at a place that offered the typical Australian pies
                        and they highly recommended.
                        I am staying the next two nights in Devonport, and tomorrow I will drive to Cradle
                        mountain which is only 90 km away, that will be my last Tasmanian highlight, as the
                        next day I will board the Spirit of Tasmania, the ferry that will take me back to Mel-
                        -bourne.
                        Victor

                                          Specimens of platypus and equidna, marsupials monotremas

                                          Equidnas feeding on insects right at our

                                          Potato and meat pie and Apricot pie

                                          Platypus diving for food

                                          Green beach North of Tasmania

                                          At Green beach

                                          Yorktown historic monument

                                          Yorktown remnant

                                          Tamar river North of Launceston

                                          Tamar river valley

                                          Platypus and Equidnas exhibit

                                          Kids swimming at Green beach, and I was very cold on the bike!!!

                                          Venomous spur of the male platypus