Maria Island overnight

Maria Island is a 1.5 hour drive + 20 minute boat ride away from Hobart, TAS.  It is a national park, an old convict settlement, an old cement manufacturing plant, an old vineyard, many native animals, and a place of long walks.  It is not a place with any food, so you must bring everything with you on the ferry and carry it to your accommodation in 'little' carts that weigh a ton.

Unfortunately, we'd forgotten our steaks, so we had ham, cheese, and salad for a lunch, a dinner, and other lunch.  Not that we'd starve to death.



A path of old evergreens from the jetty to the little town of Darlington, where the penitentiary is.










The picture below is on the veranda of the penitentiary.  It looks out on a courtyard (above), with historic buildings around the edge.  There was a family of wombats that lived under some verandas.  They would go from one side to the other, depending on the heat of the sun, I would guess.  It was cute to see the little baby wombat.  It's not the wombat picture above.  We spotted that one in an open field during our dusk walk to the painted cliffs beach.

Here's the inside of our 'cell'.

Here's some remains of an older building.

Here's another view of little Darlington Town.

We could have camped, but were wary of wallabies and wombats running around. And, it would have made the tiny cart even heavier. There are many native hens and Cape Barren geese roaming around.

One of the walks was a circuit to an old reservoir.  It was started by convicts who dammed a creek.  I had some fun watching little birds dive into the water.

Stringy bark.




Some long shadows at sunset.