Day 29 - 22/2/2014 – Myrtle Park to Beauty Point
Well it was our coldest night in Tasmania and the coldest night we
had ever had in summer! It dropped to 0.5 deg overnight. We kept
the heater running all night so it was a nice and toasty 15 deg or
so, which certainly made it bearable.
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| Crossing the Tamar River |
After crossing the Tamar river we did a quick drive through
Beaconsfield and then strait to the Beauty Point caravan park to
check in. We have done the mining thing in Mt Isa so we didn't
bother doing it again.
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| Entry into Beaconsfield |
The reason for visiting Beauty Point was to visit Platypus House and
Seahourse World. I wasn't able to get any photos of the platypus in
their natural environment at Myrtle Park, so an artificial
environment was going to have to do!
Platypus House has been setup to try and breed playpuses in
captivity. The first attempt was in 2004 and to date has still been
unsuccessful.
Just a reminder in order to view the videos you have to go to the blog site. Click here to get to the page.
The second part of the Platypus House tour took us through the
echidna exhibit. It was so cool getting up close and personal with
the echidnas as well!
After the platpus and echidna tour it was over to the next building, to Seahorse World. Seahorse World was the first place to start
farming seahorses and are one of the largest aquariums in Australia
for supping ornamental fish to pet wholesalers and private aquariums
around the world. They are no longer allowed to harvest seahorses
from the ocean because they have been placed on the endangered list
as nobody knows exactly home many are left in the wild.
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| baby seahorses in nursery tank |
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| Wouldn't want to get my hand stuck in those nippers! |
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| Unfortunately it couldn't tell me who was going to win the 2014 Soccer World Cup |
And a finally a few camp photos
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