From Cradle Mountain I drove back to Launceston, where I stayed one more night at the City Backpackers. From there I went on back to the east coast. The weather had improved quite a bit and I wanted to give the beaches of Freycinet Peninsular another try.
Tasmania – a little island south of Melbourne, formerly known as Van Diemen’s Land. The Dutch explorer Abel Tasman had been the first to set foot on the island, which was later renamed to Tasmania in his honor. During my time in Melbourne I had always wanted to pay Van Diemen’s Land a visit but had to wait another couple of years until October 2012, when after a short stop-over in Melbourne I arrived in Hobart, the capital of Australia’s smallest state.
