Photos only this time. Captions say it all.
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| Coming out of the harbour at Triabunna |
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| Maria Island from the boat |
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| The commissariat, now the Visitor Information Centre |
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| The "Coffee Palace", now a museum |
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| The rear end of a wombat! She has a young one in that hole under the deck of the penitentiary. |
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| Sign put up relatively recently...... |
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| ...........after some walkers were taken by surprise |
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| ................. and went over this! It is a long way down |
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| A bit crumbly on the edge. Spectacular view of Bishop and Clerk, the two mountains. Strenuous walk, that one, for experienced hikers. We were happy to just look at them! |
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| Plane on the "runway". |
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| Fossils in the cliffs |
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| Darlington, the original convict settlement. It was closed when it was decided it was too easy to escape from. Convicts were then sent to Port Arthur. Darlington became an industrial site, with Portland Cement works opening up there. |
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| Wombat leaving her hole |
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| Cape Barren Geese, which are all over the island. They don't look it here but they are HUGE! |
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| The beach approach to the Painted Cliffs |
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| Painted Cliffs ........... |
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| are created by seepage of water through the sandstone ....... |
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| ......... leaving deposits of iron oxide |
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| ........which create some amazing patterns. |
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| An avenue of superb trees which we think are a kind of cedar but we have to check |
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| This could be daddy wombat trundling towards us quite unconcerned.... |
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| ... just putting on a little bit of a spurt as he goes past. |
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