Tassie Tour Over, time to head home...

22/03/16, Tuesday, time to head home.

Down town New Norfolk the night before.

Bill & I had a lazy morning in New Norfolk , the mornings are cold now in Tasmania, 5C or less.

Once we finally got moving we headed out to Plenty, about 7kms away to visit the historic Salmon Ponds. Definitely worth the visit, this is where all the non native Trout in Australia & New Zealand originate from. We had some lunch then continued on.

Some of the fish at Salmon Ponds. Near New Norfolk. (Plenty)

Bill thinks it is ok...

Oldest European Fish Farm in Australia ?

A comparison against my size 10 shoe, Albino Rainbow Trout.

Hard core Tasmanian, inland fisherman.

Their fishing access vehicle, a Bantam motorbike, 40's-50's style.

Next stop (we are busy trying to kill time before our 6pm flight) was the old town of Richmond, famous for having the oldest stone bridge in all of Australia. It's still in use to this day, though there is a 5 tonne maximum load restriction to vehicles.

Richmond Bidge, Australia's oldest stone bridge built by convicts completed 1823.

Will attempting a happy pic at Richmond Bridge, about 30kms from Hobart.

Dad stayed in the car while I had a good look at the Richmond Bridge, the rest of the town looked like it was worthy of further investigation, many old buildings & interesting shops. 

Last look at the centre of Hobart from Domain Park.

We continued on & crossed the Derwent Bridge in Hobart once again to take a drive around Domain Park, nice area, also worth a bopeep . We still had an hour to burn but we're out of ideas so once again crossed the scary Derwent Bridge & headed for the Hobart International Airport, some good Aussie humour there !!! All flights from Hobart go to Melbourne or Sydney !!!

I drop Dad at the terminal, then take the Commodore to the Avis Hire Car drop off area. Fortunately we had no vehicle related incidents & I had earlier fuelled it up. I didn't take out any additional insurance, so our excess was $3000. The car was good value & cost us $450 total. I did a quick calculation at "drop off" time & we had done about 1700kms in it during our trip.

Our ride back to Melbourne, then catch an Airbus A320 to Perth. 5.5 hours travel.

Meanwhile back at the Airport Terminal we had a 3 hour wait until our Virgin Australia flight. The journey home was tough on Bill. At Melbourne Airport I borrowed a wheelchair to help get Dad to the departure gate on time and with less pain.

As always it was nice to finally arrive at our home Airport in Perth WA at 10pm, Jenny had to do a few extra drive by's in the old Landcruiser while she waited for us to exit. It was so good to see Jen again after our10 days apart & we all headed for home about an hours drive south.

Our 10 day tour route. Around Tasmania.