Our Australian Motorcycle Adventure Begins! 🇦🇺

Welcome to Australia! Today you are heading to Tasmania but first we're going to ride through Melbourne and make our way to the ferry port. Let's do this! All right so we've been staying here for the last few days smack bang in the middle of the city and it's been quite fun actually hasn't it Em? I've loved every second. Yeah so we are in the heart of CBD so we're going to make our way out. It should be a good time now, it's lunchtime and our ferry isn't until 10 o'clock tonight so it's going to be a bit of a strange day. Yeah we've got quite a bit of time to kill haven't we? 10 o'clock ferry, check out 11. So yeah but we've got a few things we can see on the way and we've got a big trip ahead of us for the next few months really isn't it? We're going to be in Australia for a few months, we're going to do a big loop around the whole country basically see as much as we can. There's going to be many tyre changes, many oil changes and I'm thinking we're going to be seeing lots of kangaroos up and many many many flat whites. So we are just riding down Elizabeth Street which is one of the main shopping streets and areas here in Melbourne and for a big city, I think Melbourne is the second biggest city in all of Australia, slowly creeping up to be the biggest city. It's been always pretty chill on the roads through CBD. Yeah you're right, I quite like Melbourne actually. It has quite an old feel to the bottom parts, you can see the original buildings that are around us and then behind them we've got these massive tower blocks and yeah cool city, really enjoyed staying here. So inside this H&M actually was the building of the, I think it was the first post office here in Melbourne and they've done the inside beautifully so it's worth heading in even if you don't want to do shopping just to see and that is the main pedestrian way just down there. I started to leave the central business district but we should get a good view of the city on the left, the river running through the town. It's really pretty actually this part of Melbourne, reminds me a little bit of London. It does, that's the river Yarra I think, it's quite a cool skyline actually in Melbourne. Yeah it looks like they're continually adding to it as well as they say, it is growing isn't it? So we are out of CBD now and we are just arriving in St Kilda, we're just gonna ride a little bit along the front before we kind of snake our way around this bay area all the way to the port of Melbourne which I think is just over there. So apparently you used to be able to get the ferry over to Tasmania right from down here but, or from the centre of the city but due to some additional charges and stuff they ended up moving it to where we're going today. Well we have arrived in Geelong and we're riding through the city now but we're going to head out of the city pretty much straight away even though the spirit of Tasmania actually does leave from here. We're going to do a little ride around because we still have like 10 hours. We are down by the water now and in the distance you can just about see Melbourne skyline but it's a little bit cloudy today but we're just doing a little loop from Geelong to use up some of our time and to see a little bit more of the suburbs of Melbourne. Yeah I think we've got a little bit of a town coming up but St Leonards is just ahead of us, I'm not sure what will be there but we'll have a look. I just spotted some gigantic, I think were pelicans. Let's just double back on ourselves go see them. They're near. I think I saw them, yeah there they are. Gosh. Whoa. They're massive. They're real, they're not real. They're not real. They are real then. Oh they're cleaning the fish. I didn't think they were real, that's mad. They're huge. Right just around the corner from the pelican experience is a small town and we have spotted a cafe. We still have a good six or seven hours to kill so I think we'll have an hour or so in here before we head back to Geelong and see what we can occupy the rest of the day with. But it's quite cool today actually, it's 20 degrees, quite nippy on some of those parts which is great. I was worried that it was going to be absolutely roasting here but it's a nice temperature at the moment. Well we've spent the past couple of hours here in the Salty Cow Cafe. Coffee has been drunk, breakfast has been eaten and we've been warming up because it has been shockingly cold on the ride down here to Geelong today but we are getting quite excited. So it's three o'clock, two minutes to three now, the cafe closes at three and we'll head back on the road. I think we have around an hour left of the route we planned before we get back to Geelong and then we'll, Geelong, Geelong, I'm not too sure which one it is. We will try and find a place there to kind of chill out and rest. It's a little bit of a slow start for our Australia leg of the trip but it just is what it is. It worked the best for us to get the overnight ferry over to Tasmania. Now we are heading to Tasmania at the very end of the season. We are fully aware of this and it just worked out this way. Australia has such a long period that you can ride in but Tasmania also has a very short season similar to New Zealand so it just had to kind of be like this. We've been warned about snow and ice potentially on some of the high alpine passes but this is something that we're very used to being the fact that we lived in Switzerland for nearly eight years so we aren't too concerned about it but we think we might have to bring the heated vests and the warmer jumpers out for the next couple of weeks we'll spend in Tasmania but first things first we need to get on the ferry so we'll hop back on the bike now and head for another little ride and waste another few hours through this part of Victoria. All right so I think we're heading in the direction of Torquay is it? We've got a little point to go and see first but the mist has actually cleared at the time we're in that cafe because we couldn't see the water much before but um yeah it's pretty clear it could mean we've got a clear crossing tonight but we don't set sail till 10 so I'm guessing it can all be in the dark anyway. I think it's always cool when you wake up though on the ferry and you you wake up and you put your suit on and then you ride off and you can just like get going you're not like just riding straight to our hotel it's yeah absolutely feels pretty cool. So we have arrived in Queenscliff this is the fort here an old historical fort um I was reading about um Geelong before and it was a major like a wool export place that developed in the 1800s the mid to late 1800s and it became actually quite a big um industrial powerhouse for this area even Ford used to manufacture their cars there I think. There is the spirit of Tasmania so we're going to be getting on that that vessel in a few hours time. The sun is uh starting to set I don't know how much longer we'll have daylight for I know we're supposed to ride after four o'clock in Australia but uh we're quite urban around here so I think we'll be okay for random kangaroos jumping out we haven't seen one yet no and not for want of searching we've had a couple of fake kangaroo calls in the past hour I'm also looking for koala bears in every single tree good luck with that but no need to worry about crocodiles while we're down here on the south coast of Australia are they all at the north are they somewhere the most of them all I think they're like in like that bit all the way around the dock but not the bottom so we've made it to Torquay which looks like a surfer's paradise it does it said at home of Australian surfing I didn't know there was a big museum I don't know if that is a contested uh statement amongst Australians but that's what it said anyway so we're gonna just ride down to the beach maybe a little bit along the coast and then we'll head back to Geelong to uh catch the ferry it's uh five o'clock now so we've got still a couple more hours to spare but I think that's filled the day quite nicely end of the road start of the great one and endless beautiful coastlines I think we'll be uh we'll be sailing through that soon won't we in a few hours is it the um is it the Bass Strait is it yeah that's the one oh yeah there's quite a few surfers down there actually I think it might be like um maybe their manned surf area as well you know when they have a lifeguard it's quite common here in uh oh okay yeah oh yeah there's a red boat the lifeguard there that's cool how they um they do that all right is that those um oh they're not galahs are they those parrots can you see them or is the sun in your eyes can you not see them yeah I can't see yeah they're like the pink parrot so they were indeed galahs and from my knowledge from neighbours and home and away if you call someone a flaming galah you're basically calling them an idiot I think I think it's still accurate as well but they were really beautiful birds very common here as well so I think we're going to see a lot of those over the next few months which is uh fine by us we're well early Sean terminal we are a bit early aren't we I don't think there's nobody else here other than us you almost need to add 10 years to our age we're that early well it's not like we tried we did try and like come a bit later but what time is it um it is six o'clock so I think they're boarding in a couple of hours so you can check in now if you want to but is there like anywhere to sit or at least a toilet or something no do you want to go find somewhere just really close like not in the city maybe just it's like an easy pull in yeah I'll see what there is yeah sky's beautiful oh no there is a way there might be a waiting area inside should I go to the front yeah let's go to that bike there we have decided to just queue we think there's a waiting area and I need to wait so and everyone else seems to be doing the awesome not too long to wait then so it's half past seven now and we're waiting in the terminal the ferry departs at 10 o'clock so only got a couple more hours to uh to kill before we head off um I think they said they're going to board all of the cars first and then at the end the bikes are going to go on supposedly about 10 bikes going on the ferry tonight um it's actually been really nice to catch up with a few people back there having a good chat got some great tips already for when we arrive in Tasmania because we don't actually have a plan yet of where we're going to go but um reckon in about 10 days or three weeks should be ample time for us to really see what Tasmania have and I'm quite looking forward to it because it's um yeah it's kind of like a very well preserved history there lots of things to see lots of history as well to discover and tons of wildlife which we're going to enjoy seeing so yeah we're just going to wait here for a couple more hours and then we're going to head on our way into the ferry right a little bit late uh nine o'clock I think there's a small delay on the ferry tonight but we are rolling on so that's a good sign next stop Tavi I can't believe how many cars there are and vehicles this ship unbelievable this bit must be a lot bigger than it looked from where we saw it before right into the bowels of the ship looks like we're going on this side thank you so I've been told that they strap these up for you here so you don't need to worry about them I hope this level is well supported look it's just floating there this mezzanine floor where are they taking us I wonder ah yeah straight that's good normally they put you on the side don't they with a smack band in the middle that guy's brought his own pillow although in fairness it is the memory foam one that cups your uh your neck I wouldn't mind breaking out of there yeah he knows let's turn the alarm off as well nearly forgot so on the spirit of Tasmania you get the full service here they secure the bike for you they have all of the ratchet straps there so you just need to ride on and they do yeah everything for you stress-free which is really nice isn't it it really is it is super cool to finally be on the spirit of Tasmania I'm very excited oh nice wood paneling so number five remember that yeah purple staircase Barney staircase oh no decade yes we are decade we've got a porthole cabin quite romantic if you ask me it was the cheapest one it was cabin tour this is our cabin on the spirit of Tasmania we do have a and a little bathroom well normally I do a ferry tour at this point but I'm pretty nice well there is a restaurant opening so we go for a late night meal yeah at least a little wander as we uh set off towards Tasmania and cross the bath straight right we've come into the gift shop to try and see if they have any patches and Sean has already spotted them look how awesome these ones are if you don't already I collect patches from all around the world and I know my Australia Tasmania collection is going to be pretty incredible so I'm going to pick up a couple of these the ship is really lovely there's actually on deck 10 and deck 9 there are pizza and wine bars and I think it is the best selection of wines and spirits I've ever seen on a ferry there's such good quality on there we've managed to pick up a couple of salads and we're going to go up to the room to eat them so we can have a look at some of the brochures for here in Tasmania actually quite a good meal selection these were just from like the little shop they have on here they also have a restaurant which has a buffet dinner but we didn't fancy that tonight so pretty good and first day on the road in Australia hasn't quite been what we expected and the first days are like this obviously in your head you basically think you're going to ride off and you'll be surrounded by kangaroos big desert roads and open spaces but today we've been going from the city through the suburbs and still some beautiful sights and even though we were through the suburbs and the built-up areas we saw the pelicans the galahs and a lot of other wildlife on the way so it's a good sign for things to come really looking forward to tomorrow where we pull up into Tasmania speak to a few people while we were waiting we actually wait about four or five hours I think so yeah lots of good advice from some fellow bikers and from what they've been saying we're going to have an absolutely amazing time in Tasmania there's so much to see and yeah can't wait to arrive tomorrow so we're going to dock around about 8 30 straight off and then we're going to ride a biggest day tomorrow and make our way to the other side of the island that's but first going to have dinner and go to sleep so we'll probably catch you in the morning as we roll off the ferry and visit Tasmania good morning from Devonport we actually had a fantastic sleep on the boat last night we've pretty much got out of bed about 20 minutes ago and we're here we've docked and we're about to disembark I think in about five minutes so we'll be on our way in no time weather looks good here quite cloudy quite cool but it's going to be a nice day today I think the first stop is to find some breakfast somewhere here in Devonport and then we're going to make our way over to Stanby if we can drop our bags off at the hotel that's great if not we're going to do some big loops and then head back to Stanby later on really excited to go and explore Tasmania back on the deck now to pick the bike up everything's fine everyone is still vertical and we have been released indeed that was a really pleasant ferry crossing it was a little bit rocky in the night but I think overall it was a super calm crossing that one yeah I woke up a couple of times from like the bigger waves and was like no I'm on a boat it's well welcome to Tasmania yes exciting we've got a whole four minutes to ride 650 meters for our first stop which is very good news indeed that sound is not Storm's engine by the way everyone no don't worry the storm is not about to break down it's fine so we're just going in now through a customs area because you can't bring in any fruit or vegetables or seafood or plant material into Tasmania so I think a lot of the cars will be getting pulled over and checked secondary check they did check everyone in the way in as well didn't they well the autumn leaves have fallen here in Tasmania showing that we're really at the end of season it's quite pretty isn't it actually with these golden leaves you're eating us this looks like a fairly historical building here in Devonport that's where we are it's supposed to be a good breakfast place as well so let's go in there so we've come into Miss Jacqueline's for some breakfast we've got some poached egg on toast with avocado and she's got homemade baked beans which look insanely good some coffees and we'll hit the road soon it is going to be an incredible time here in Tasmania you can already feel it from when we've arrived the also amazing thing about it is I think we're in a perfect weather window possibly where we're going to get cloudy days but we're also getting the changing of the seasons we have just heard on a local plane it's snowing somewhere so let's see how this goes just a short ride away from this morning's cafe we've headed into the town center of Devonport to the tourist information center which is also the service Tasmania department and we're there because we need to get a pass for the national parks here in Tasmania I think you can buy like an annual pass that covers them all which is what we're going to do I'm not sure you can stick it on the front of the bike we did see you could get them digitally on the boat but it said that you get like a little receipt piece of paper that you can put on your dashboard so I think we came here so we can get the sticker which we can actually stick to the bike otherwise it'll just get blown away or rained on speaking to the lady in the cafe she said there was a sprinkling of snow on top of cradle mountain here I checked the webcam and it looked pretty clear so I don't know if it was just a little bit in the night and it all melted away but we'll be getting going soon I'm just going to come back now and I think she has the passes so I've just been inside the visitors information center to pick up our parks pass here for Tasmania now there's a few different options you can do with this so you can either get day passes and they're about 23 dollars each or the other option is getting a two-month holiday pass that's what we went with we actually got a car pass for the bike because per person is 43 dollars I think but for the car pass is 96 dollars 50 somewhere around there so because there's two of us it worked out better for us to get the car pass for two months so we'll be able to explore all of Tasmania's parks over the next few weeks which is really exciting but it was actually awesome to head in there they had so much information they've given me an app as well that is looked after by the government that you can see if there's any road closures or ice warnings or potential fires she said the biggest risk at this time of the year is potential flash flooding so we'll definitely be keeping an eye on that Sean has done the route on Kalimoto and we are ready to get going so without further ado let's start our road trip of Tasmania so I made this route just now basically here in Devonport we're going to scoot along the coast there nice and quickly then we're going to head inland big twisty section here on the 218 the C218 then we'll come down here hit back the coastline again and then there's a place down here called the edge of the world and then we'll go all the way back up to the top and finish again in Stanley which is quite a historical place so it'd be quite nice to finish the day there so yeah that'll be the first day today we've got 345 kilometers and about five hours of riding time oh we've ridden out of the town and into the next one we are currently in a penguin which is one of the coolest named towns we've come across on this trip yeah and this and they i think it's called penguin highway it was all called penguin penguin road is the one that is running along the coastline there and they have penguins they do indeed they actually have a penguin viewing platform which i doubt there's going to be any of them awake or on the shore today but certainly i reckon if you came at sunset you uh might have a treat of a show all right here we are in penguin and it seems that they are embracing the penguin theme which is really good 1909 that one few older buildings yeah everything is named something penguins we've had penguin bakehouse we've had penguin clothing store penguin shoes and here's the giant penguin in penguin there he is it's pingu penguin visitor center it's pretty cool it is it looks like it's got a lovely beach as well we're making our way west on the a2 weather's holding up nicely there are some black clouds looming in the sky but uh fingers crossed that we'll be all right i think we're about 40 kilometers until we turn off this main road and head into some of the more interesting smaller roads where hopefully we'll see a lot of wildlife the uh the lady at the information center said you're uh gonna run into quite a lot didn't she yeah she did she was mentioning all kinds of snakes and tasmanian devils and ducks on the road and it made it sound like we were about to ride into kind of a nature reserve so i'm looking forward to that hopefully we don't get caught in any of these big clouds whoa so there is stanley we've decided that we're just going to drop the bags off um put on a heated vest it's quite chilly and then we're going to head back out it's uh literally five kilometers from the turn off where we'll be heading towards the other coastline but uh looks quite pretty actually so far all right so we're checked in well they let us check in early which was very kind so let's just drop our bags off quickly up here and make our way we're number 19 which is one of those at the top there it is there oh perfect do not drive stormy in there almost yeah i know you by now what a view it's beautiful isn't it there is a penguin viewing spot as well down there so if we make it back in time we can maybe go and check that out that'd be cool spoke with the lady at reception we changed the route a little bit on the end she said the um there was a choice between two return journeys and one was mainly farmland the other is more rainforest so we're gonna opt for the rainforest awesome a good view of the surrounding areas from up here we could just call a glimpse of stanley there's another island over there that looks almost volcanic but um yeah we've made good progress so far and we should be turning off just down here now and then i think probably like 20ks or something and we're then going to do that i've forgotten the name of the road already i've got the leaflet in the back there we'll have when we stop next the forest is getting a little bit more dense now as we head to the interior and we've got a glimpse of that famous red australian dirt there i think that's something we'll be very familiar with over the next uh few weeks um the lady at the um i get the information center said don't expect the wildlife to move for you they uh they're not that bothered yeah that's why they yeah because i said to her like oh the bike's quite loud for scaring the birds away and she was like yeah maybe the birds or everything else they don't care so that's the road we're riding today the tarkeen drive and that's pretty much the 218 the c218 there's a few other little stops that we can do on the way but it's supposed to be uh yeah it's supposed to be really scenic and where we're gonna well there's a good chance we'll see some more wildlife that are away from these farming regions it's been nice so far we've having glimpses of tasmania's uh forestry but there's also been a lot of deforestation in the area so hopefully we can get a little bit deeper into the forests now this was this was recommended to us this arch as a bonus bit of road right it's only like five kilometers of gravel i think so i guess it's worth it um the lady at the hotel actually okay so this is not on my route you're taking recommendations from other women sean oh i have yeah it's conversion time at least i think it's this one yeah it was this one we are on the right track there was a signpost back there that said i can't remember what it was called trawater's arch or something i couldn't quite make out the last four letters i'd say it looks like they have been shot so i have to have a look at the map but uh this is an unusual road surface well unusual to us anyway it feels like clay or it looks like clay there's some damp spots where it's quite slippery under tire but i can imagine in the rain this gets uh this thing gets quite slippery smells nice though doesn't it these trees it does it is just a short 15 minute walk to the arch so we've uh set off on foot it's quite beautiful actually this um first example of the australian or tasmanian bush here some very good similarities to some of the new zealand but but with more like big well-established trees i'd say one thing m just did remind me of is there is potential death out there in the form of snakes and spiders i had totally forgotten about it so we'll be sticking straight to the path and i'm quite happy to have yeah we don't have any gators or anything but there is no crocodiles in uh tasmania i don't think i think it's too cold for them but people are telling us not to worry about anything like that we'll see i guess uh i don't believe people i don't especially don't believe city folk those city folk that are like oh i've never seen a spider well that lady said she's seen five snakes on the road this year hasn't she yeah it's really tranquil here very quiet nice to get off the bike and stretch there's a chance of a wallaby they have lots of wallabies here they do have kangaroos as well in tasmania but a smaller type not like the big red ones that they have on the mainland a steep walled water-filled sinkhole and is regarded as one of the best examples in tasmania it is more than 20 meters deep and it's an important habitat for invertebrates wow wow so lots of creepy crawlies and critters around here pretty cool place though it feels eerie a little bit it does the top it looks like it's gonna collapse as well so it's got water in it gosh that's quite beautiful wow so that was a giant underground sinkhole that just collapsed kind of like a cave so this short detour was well worth it just a 15 minute walk on the road we'll make our way back to the bike now but what we didn't realize when we clambered through there is how delicate the top of the structure looks it looks like the rest of it will eventually cave in and fall down but hopefully not today i need to watch out for these green mossy roads they can be quite treacherous obviously they've had a lot of rainfall so the moss does grow on the road quite a pretty road actually the way we're just cutting through the forests here i think i can see water down there on the left yeah there's a river running adjacent to this track quite spectacular and the air is so fresh and clean here as well it's a really nice ride today yeah i keep having to open my visor and like smell the air because it smells so sweet it's uh there's a lot of water around this corner there is yeah you can just about see it there through the trees someone said to us actually um tasmania is like the south island of new zealand but we have brown water not blue ah yep because they're not glacier fed yeah yeah full of life that's the same i've got a bridge here we're gonna cross over the river that's an interesting rock 12 o'clock any wildlife down there i can't see anything no i can't either it's pretty though the trees are just about clinging on up there wouldn't take much of a storm to blow some of them down i was just about to say we haven't seen anyone on this road and that's the first car we've we are endangered that's the tasmanian devil i think is it yeah that's so cool dusk to dawn i mean it's quite overcast today i don't know if they'll come out earlier well we've been riding on some of these amazing forest roads and we've just come to a sinkhole we've pulled over to check it out it's a water-filled sinkhole so again same procedure as the uh cave we went to see but this time it's been filled with water it is deadly still like well it would be silent if that car wasn't putting in behind us but the water is not moving at all really pretty all right this isn't the direction we need to go but i saw the river so i thought i'd cross over it it's really pretty isn't it wow squatter all right to turn around we can see the other side don't see any devils in there no they should be waking up around about now they should we're bordering on we shouldn't be out and about when our curfew is so that is the road that we just came out of behind us there so we're going to take this one and head further south of the island to the edge of the world the gum trees on this section are really impressive seems like there's no foliage on the bottom bit you can just see all these sticks in the ground they're really cool they've had a lot of farm forest fires around here over well several decades i think the last big one was uh 1960 in fact there was an entire forest back there that had been regrown but still that was quite a long time ago so the forest seems to have recovered quite well feels like an enchanted forest drive i cannot describe how good it smells yeah and actually make a good aftershave don't you think yeah odour tazzy odour tazzy we're not riding very fast today because we really want to see wildlife yeah really want to see something and these roads are quite slippery but we've not seen much we actually saw um the swift before didn't we the um the multi-coloured parrot that's found here in tasmania yeah i think it's called the swift it's really cool but he kind of moved off very swiftly he did indeed he basically saw it and then it disappeared hopefully we uh get the chance to see a few more of them so we've made it back down to the southern part of tasmania and the ocean has come back into view again but on the opposite side of where we arrived this uh side looks really rugged there's some really spiky rocks there with the water crashing on them so i guess em that way is antarctica that's amazing that's so cool wow look on the map and i don't know if it's more south or the same but it seems to be on par with bottom of the south island of new zealand yeah i don't know which pit is more suddenly but there is a part um that we can pull off to in a bit which is called the edge of the world right so here almost at the edge of the world i haven't checked it but i guess this is one of the most southerly points of the island if not the most southerly point of tasmania and of australia at the same time i'd imagine but we'll find out later do you have some phone signal so we can check it but this should take us um right up to the ocean pretty cool day actually it feels pretty remote out here we've not seen many people at all and it's uh it's chilly as well it's um 16 degrees i think it's the most remote we felt in ages it is isn't it yeah and the wind is blowing as well so it does feel even colder we're going to get a big reveal at the top of this brow yes wow wow gosh look at this place whoa that's unreal oh it feels so like raw and exposed here i'm shocked at that did you see the the rocks in the water yeah we'll see him again in a second wow gosh there's a viewing platform up there as well and a toilet 10 out of 10 amenities another edge of the world another most southerly easterly westerly northerly point to add to the list sean i think this one might be a favorite though it looks pretty cool let's get up on that viewing platform and see what like all right well we have made it to the edge of the world it is is it the northwest it's the northwest coast of tasmania i did just search it and it's not the most southerly point we were cheated but i think the most southerly point of tasmania is a hikeable thing it's not a post we can ride up to but what a magnificent spot this is insane it feels so raw here there's some of the sizes of these waves behind us there are huge crashing onto those rocks there and there's like a orange tinge to these rocks here a bit of grass and moss on that one reminding you where you are the red isn't it it is yeah very australia isn't it indeed and especially today with the uh the weather and the clouds it feels just like the end of the world literally literally does yeah and we have we've ridden for what like an hour now without seeing another person yeah yeah it has been empty hasn't it yeah what time are we on now actually it's getting quite late in the day i say late yeah it's hit five o'clock so yeah dusk is now so not a great time to be riding we will pay extra care for animals if we'll see any um but yeah what a cool spot i'm glad the weather held out for us as well it's quite atmospheric with these dark clouds surrounding us but yeah nice and dry great riding today some of the roads were fantastic was a good start to our australia trip i think this feels more like iceland than the south island yeah it does have some iceland feels about it just like yeah it's very raw and barren isn't it well at least what we just ridden there was down here on the coast as well feels great doesn't it plenty of driftwood down there furniture making picture frames or patch frames i want that house over there it's pretty cool that house isn't it in the nowhere all my hard work of cleaning storm after a few hours he's filthy again full of dirt the back is the worst he's been like sprayed spraying up and everywhere oh well i'm sure he'll get a lot more red dust on him over the next few weeks anyway let's get those vests plugged in um i don't think we need our vests for australia but it's our first week we're gonna have to put them on high i think all right it's time to head back to where we're staying we've got 83 kilometers and we'll be heading back north again we've chosen the inland route as the lady said the other one was just basically farming a lander so yeah yeah i mean it'd be nice to have been by the coast but as it's getting dark anyway there's that there's no yeah it's actually quicker as well the inland route so we'll take that one oh okay and then we'll go to a supermarket there is a supermarket up there isn't there where we can perhaps get dinner from because there's not so many options actually um in fact again lady at the uh hotel said you should probably book ahead if you want to go to the one of the two restaurants that's in there in the village i don't know if it's because it's off season there's uh less things open at the moment no i think um we'll go to the the woolies in smithton and they said it was open till 10 p.m so we'll go there but i might pick up a couple of like freeze-dried meals as well just as a backup i didn't want to bring anything into tassie just in case like i didn't know the full extent of the rules when we took the ferry if it was like blanket no food products at all or or what yeah i think it was dry food in the end wasn't it but we didn't know i didn't buy anything so we don't have any food on us so that's a bit naughty really that um so we'll we'll pick up some stuff in the woolies if i don't freeze to death in between here and woolies yeah it's going dark isn't it very quickly quarter past five it'll be six by the time we're home a little bit more built up here small coastal town arthur river wow looks like they do some tours from here there's some huge birds over there so you see them in there in the water yeah oh my gosh no way there was three of them yeah there was wasn't there yeah they were just small ones um yeah i reckon they're wallabies because we just saw what we reckon was a kangaroo but we only saw the back end of it but it was huge it was too big to be a wallaby here in the outback of tasmania a fully dressed emily can be seen trying to find a small wallaby to take a photo of i think we will see many more during our travels i hope so he looked really cute you can tell that they live here you can see all the little footpaths and the bushes that they've been taking i can see why they say don't ride at night yeah absolutely it's literally just gone dusk and it's like we've seen four wallabies and a kangaroo yeah it's mad that there is actually a speed limit for dusk till dawn it's heavily reduced i actually think we've got quite a um a rural ride home as well so i'm sure we'll see some more my heart is like shaking people think we're mad probably see hundreds of them don't they but for us it's rather exciting actually to be in a new country new wildlife to spot and creatures that we've never seen before certainly not in the wild and maybe once or twice in a zoo i have never seen a kangaroo full stop full stop wow i think you're gonna love it here i know is it like 50 wallabies behind us now no laughing having a picnic well it's half past six in the evening of course and it is now pitch black out there the time between the sun going down and complete darkness is not so long here the window is quite short so we might have got caught a little bit off guard today with the timing i thought we would be back just before dusk but uh yeah it is night time now and we've pulled up to the next village or next town along from where we're going to be staying tonight um this place here is open it's a big walworth supermarket so em's going to get us some dinner for tonight and then we're probably about i don't know 15 or 20 minutes away from stanley which will make our way back there once em's finished her shopping but awesome first day really in tasmania um seen lots seen the kangaroos seen wallabies seen the swift parrot and yeah lots of other things as well so really impressive some really nice riding as well through some of those roads so for the first day here in tasmania really impressed had a fantastic time i'm looking forward to exploring the rest back in tonight's motel um what's for dinner tonight well not a lot really i've got some chickpeas i haven't even mixed them in yeah chickpea salad um with tofu and some wraps because this place luckily had a toaster not many places have a toaster so coffee machine cow and toaster so we should be all right got some hummus as well that'll keep us going for tonight won't it it should do actually i've got a great tip with the um salad a lot of the time salad dressings are huge aren't they they're enough for like five or six salads if you buy a sun-dried tomatoes from like the antipasti section with the oil in it's a little bit more calorific but we need calories it's a dressing at the same time so it kind of doubles up which is quite cool but it's been an awesome first day in tasmania i am blown away a little bit and we saw another 15 wallabies i'd say on the way back to the motel tonight they were all along the side of the road guy at the supermarket told us to watch out for wombats he said don't try not to hit anything but absolutely don't hit a wombat he says they are just pure muscle yeah like hitting a rock he said but i will say we went to the woolworths in smithson it is the most friendly supermarket i have ever been in in my entire life everybody greeted you the cashier was wonderful people asked if they could help you like just really community yeah so i think that gives us a great taste of tasmania and we have so much longer here to be able to really explore so we'll see you all in the next episode as we continue our road trip of tasmania all right try that